41.   Separately, Liberte newspaper reported that a soldier was killed Thursday when a homemade bomb exploded beside an army patrol near Boghni, east of Algiers.

42.   Security officials in Lebanon and the Israeli military said Hezbollah gunmen approached the fence and fired on an Israeli patrol near a military base.

43.   Shiite Muslim guerrillas ambushed an Israeli patrol near the Crusader-built Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon Sunday, wounding an Israeli soldier.

44.   Security sources said guerrillas set off a roadside bomb close to an Israeli armored patrol near Tallousa on the northern edge of the Israeli-held zone.

45.   Serbian sources said Tuesday militants attacked an army patrol near the border outpost of Morina with machine-gun fire.

46.   Serbian sources said Tuesday that militants attacked an army patrol near the border outpost of Morina with machine-gun fire.

47.   Serbian sources said Tuesday militants attacked an army patrol near the border outpost of Morine with machine gun fire.

48.   That raid was in retaliation for a Hezbollah ambush on an Israeli patrol near the village of Sojod.

49.   Soon after, a Hezbollah group ambushed the Israeli patrol near Chebaa with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifle fire, grabbing three soldiers.

50.   The air action came hours after Hezbollah guerrillas ambushed an Israeli patrol near the crusader-built Beaufort Castle on the northern edge of the enclave.