31.   Earlier Thursday Chechen military commanders abandoned their headquarters and withdrew from the self-declared separatist capital of Shali, also under intense pressure from advancing Russian forces.

32.   Diplomats said Joulwan had suggested that airstrikes against advancing Serb forces would be difficult in the mountaineous terrain.

33.   The road used by the UN vehicle is the main southern access into the enclave and blocked to stop any advancing forces, Ivanko explained.

34.   The third, Srebrenica, fell a week ago to advancing Serb forces who have vowed to purge eastern Bosnia of its remaining Moslem population.

35.   They have prevented all actions against the advancing Serbian forces, hidden crimes committed.

36.   There was little fighting as government forces fled the advancing Taliban forces.

37.   Most of them were arrested outside the enclave before it fell, while they were trying to flee the advancing Bosnian Serb forces.

38.   NATO staged air raids Tuesday but this failed to save Srebrenica from advancing Serb forces.

39.   PUK chief Jalal Talabani told AFP his advancing forces would stop short of storming Arbil and expected its residents to liberate it from KDP forces led by Massoud Barzani.

40.   The Brussels source said UNPROFOR was trying to establish whether advancing Bosnian Serb forces or their Croatian Serb allies had fired the shells.