41.   Israeli air force planes twice flew training sorties over the Mediterranean island of Cyprus last year, a government spokesman disclosed on Monday.

42.   AFP correspondents said military planes flew several sorties over Grozny, drawing machine-gun fire from Chechen defence forces on the ground.

43.   AFP correspondents said Russian military planes flew several sorties over Grozny, drawing machine-gun fire from Chechen forces on the ground.

44.   Also employing pilots from the former Soviet union, it flies regular sorties to the embattled northern peninsula of Jaffna where airforce cerew dread attacks by the rebels.

45.   Captain Rubai said southern air force jets flew sorties several times a day, but their attacks were largely ineffective.

46.   The southerners were trying to halt the advancing troops with extensive air power, and warplanes were flying sorties from Aden airport, an AFP correspondent reported.

47.   Warplanes continued to fly sorties over the region through the night.

48.   Russian artillery gunners pounded the Chechen capital Grozny Monday while Russian bombers flew repeated sorties, correspondents reported.

49.   Since then Israel has flown daily sorties over Lebanon searching to wipe out Hezbollah resistance fighters.

50.   Southern warplanes were constantly taking off and landing at Aden airport as they flew sorties against the northern forces.