31.   Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim guerrillas attacked Israeli and allied militia positions in south Lebanon on Saturday, provoking artillery and missile duels, security sources said.

32.   Israel said that shelling was carried out by its allied militia, the South Lebanon Army.

33.   Islamic militants in southern Lebanon have since stepped up their attacks on Israeli forces, killing three Israeli soldiers and a senior officer of an allied militia this week.

34.   Israeli forces killed a guerrilla in southern Lebanon Friday while their allied militia released two Lebanese detainees.

35.   Israeli forces killed a guerrilla in southern Lebanon on Friday while their allied militia released two Lebanese detainees.

36.   Israeli troops and an allied Lebanese Christian militia frequently clash in the South with Muslim guerrillas led by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God.

37.   Israeli troops and their allied militia demolished two houses Thursday in a southern Lebanese village that guerrillas used as cover for attacks.

38.   Israeli troops and their allied militia, the South Lebanon Army, later fired scores of artillery shells at villages near the zone, the sources said.

39.   Israeli troops killed four guerrillas trying to infiltrate an Israeli-held strip in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army and an allied militia said Monday.

40.   Israeli troops and an allied militia occupy a strip of south Lebanon as a buffer against guerrilla attacks.