41.   Earlier Saturday, Serb rebels seized a third U.N. observation post but then allowed the peacekeepers there to leave.

42.   Earlier, the rebels seized the coastal town of Muanda and it appears as though they were also in the nearby village of Kitona.

43.   Emirates President Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan offered to mediate after rebels seized a strip of land along the Ethiopian border.

44.   For the past two months, Indian forces have waged a blistering campaign to dislodge the guerrillas from mountain peaks the rebels seized in early May.

45.   Five heavily armed Chechen rebels seized a police officer and two journalists Thursday in breakaway Chechnya, then disappeared in a minibus, news reports said.

46.   Four people were killed in the attack on Sinje and rebels also seized five nurses, taking them to the rebel stronghold of Voinjama near the Guinean border.

47.   Four years later, Zagreb recaptured the lands the rebels had seized, which were temporarily put under international supervision.

48.   For the past two months, Indian forces have waged a blistering campaign to dislodge the Islamic guerrillas from mountain peaks the rebels seized in early May.

49.   Golovnyov denied a Russian news report that the rebels had seized a maternity home.

50.   Government forces concentrated their mortars and rockets on Aracinovo, a Skopje suburb seized by rebels early this month.