21.   They said Taliban soldiers and rival government troops pounded each other using tanks, heavy artillery and heavy machine guns.

22.   Troops pounded the building with grenades and mortars and raked it with machine guns until the building collapsed, police said.

23.   Troops pounded the building with grenades and mortars and raked it with machine guns until the building collapsed.

24.   Troops pounded the building with grenades and mortars and raked it with machine guns until the building collapsed, said police officials who cannot be identified by name.

25.   Two women and a child were killed Thursday as Indian troops pounded villages on the Pakistani side of Kashmir, officials said.

26.   Northern troops pounded the northern suburbs of Sheikh Othman and Mansura Sunday.

27.   On the frontlines, troops have been pounding each other heavily with mortars and artillery, while Islamabad has test-fired three missiles.

28.   Police said Pakistani troops pounded Indian positions at Naushera in the southwest overnight.

29.   Russian troops have generally pounded Chechen separatist positions with major shelling before launching offensives to try to seize such zones.

30.   Rangoon troops pounded an ethnic Karen rebel stronghold Sunday, pressing a siege that began two weeks ago.