41.   Nonetheless, U.S. forces around the world were being repositioned.

42.   Northern Alliance fighters are battling Taliban forces around Mazar-e-Sharif, the largest city near the border.

43.   Police have deployed extra forces around the city, including two areas where the attacks occurred, near the Temple of Literature and in the new Tay Ho district.

44.   Rebel Serbs from Croatia and fighters loyal to a renegade Muslim leader -- neither signatories to the truce agreement -- are fighting government forces around Velika Kladusa.

45.   Since April, separatists have clashed three times with Chinese security forces around Yining, near the Kazakstan border.

46.   Tanks were parked Thursday night off Gaza, the home base of the Hamas militant group, and Israeli forces around the strip were being beefed up.

47.   That came to an end last July as the Serbs squeezed Srebrenica once more and built up their forces around its outskirts.

48.   Tanks were seen moving toward Gaza Thursday and forces around the strip were being beefed up.

49.   The Bosnian Croats have for the first time joined government forces around Sarajevo in the latest offensive.

50.   The Bosnian Croats have, for the first time, joined government forces around Sarajevo in the latest offensive.