41.   The Taliban hostage later was released, and he returned safely to Kandahar on Saturday, the militia said.

42.   The Taliban militia said in turn that it was insulted, and ordered the three male officials expelled from the country.

43.   The Taliban militia said Tuesday that a former prime minister and leader of one of the factions opposing its rule has been killed in northern Afghanistan.

44.   The Taliban militia says they were delivering weapons to its opponents.

45.   The White House discouraged Jackson, and the Taliban militia said they had not asked him to come.

46.   Three guerrillas tried to enter Beit Yahoun to plant roadside bombs early Wednesday, the South Lebanon Army militia said.

47.   Four Lebanese civilians were killed Friday in a bomb attack in the south Lebanese village of Houla near the border with Israel, a pro-Israeli militia said.

48.   Four young Lebanese girls were killed Friday in a bomb attack in the south Lebanese village of Houla near the border with Israel, a pro-Israeli militia said.

49.   Guerrillas rocketed Israeli positions in south Lebanon on Monday for the first time this year without causing casualties, a pro-Israeli militia said.

50.   A dissident Palestinian group in south Lebanon, the Black September Brigades, said it attacked another SLA post on Monday night but the militia said nobody was wounded.