31.   Soldiers took some settlers out against their will, the Israeli military said, fearing that there would be retaliation once the Palestinians realized the military had pulled back.

32.   Special operations commandos aboard the warships are trained to begin evacuating Americans six hours after receiving an order from the White House, the military said.

33.   That knowledge, the military said, can then be used to reduce their vulnerability.

34.   The base is heavily guarded, and the military will say little about it.

35.   The Burmese military has previously said that it will not free the opposition leader unless she agrees to leave Myanmar, a step she has refused.

36.   The guerrillas are known to construct elaborate booby traps and to carry out ambushes in which dozens of soldiers are killed, the military says.

37.   The Israeli military said four Palestinians were shot dead early Saturday at the Askar refugee camp near Nablus as they placed explosives along a road to the camp.

38.   The Israeli military said that it did not yet know when the children and the bodies would be brought out.

39.   The Israeli military initially said the three were killed by tank fire after they fired at a military vehicle in a security zone near a Jewish settlement in Gaza.

40.   The Israeli military said it captured Husam Ataf Ali Badran, a leader of the militant organization Hamas.