41.   Opposition groups and witnesses in Arbil, reporting many civilian casualties, said Iraqi forces entered the city after launching a large-scale dawn attack with tanks and heavy artillery.

42.   Presidential forces, backed by tanks, launched a dawn attack on Taliban lines.

43.   Rival Yemeni forces were battling on all fronts, with the heaviest fighting reported to the north where troops loyal to President Ali Abdallah Saleh launched a dawn attack.

44.   Suspected fundamentalist gunmen shot and killed two people and wounded a third in a dawn attack Monday, police sources said.

45.   The Belgrade news agency Tanjug reported a violent artillery and infantry dawn attack on Brcko, as well as skirmishes around Gornji Vakuf, also under Serb control.

46.   The dawn surprise attack on Burmese troop positions and a government office lasted nearly six hours, with the MTA force eventually retreating north.

47.   The gunmen had earlier in the day been seen by people who live near the prison scouting the area before they eventually launched their dawn attack.