41.   In July, suspected militants killed five police in Minya.

42.   In other violence during the past several days, militants killed two soldiers, two civilians and a religious leader, newspapers reported.

43.   In one attack, militants killed three children and two women Tuesday night in the remote mountainous village of Nagni, state police chief Ashok Suri said.

44.   In another shootout, three soldiers were killed by militants who attacked a security patrol in Tamulpur, a village in Nalbari district, police said.

45.   In one such attack in the Jijel region on Thursday, militants killed four civilians by cutting their throats, the Liberte newspaper said Sunday.

46.   In the worst incident, which erupted Monday, militants killed two police and five other people in the village of el-Aqal el-Bahari.

47.   In the same district, militants killed two brothers in their home.

48.   In recent years, hundreds of people have been killed by militants belonging to small but heavily armed extremist groups of both Muslim sects.

49.   In the following weeks, the group staged attacks that killed a dozen Israelis, ending several weeks in which an Israeli had not been killed by militants.

50.   Islamic militants killed five foreigners in a dawn raid Friday on a heavily guarded industrial site in southern Algeria, the government said.