21.   But the pro-Syrian Shiite Muslim group Amal claimed its guerrillas ambushed two SLA patrols near Alman, killing one militiaman and wounding five.

22.   Defense Secretary Renato de Villa on Tuesday ordered the Navy to increase patrols near the area where a patrol boat exchanged heavy gunfire with two unidentified foreign vessels.

23.   Ethnic Albanian militants ambushed Macedonian security forces on patrol near the tense boundary with Kosovo, killing eight and wounding eight others, a military spokesman said.

24.   Elsewhere, one soldier was killed in a fight between rebels and a military patrol near Manivasakulam village in the Trincomalee district.

25.   Following the attacks, police authorities ordered increased patrols near oil depot and offices of oil companies in the capital.

26.   Gunmen had opened fire on a French patrol near the airport on Saturday.

27.   Guerrillas also clashed with a patrol near the Albanian border, the private TV station SITEL said.

28.   He said the officers were part of a mobile force on patrol near the Chechen border when they were ambushed.

29.   Hezbollah guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb next to an Israeli patrol near the border in southern Lebanon overnight, killing two soldiers, officials said Thursday.

30.   International peace monitors said they discovered the bodies of the five ethnic Albanians shortly after sunrise while conducting a routine patrol near Rakovina.