51.   Party leader Imer Imeri demanded that President Boris Trajkovski end the army offensive and that the rebels lay down their arms.

52.   Possible explanations for the Burmese move include an army offensive against the Mong Tai Army of warlord Khun Sa along the border.

53.   Rebel fighters from Croatia cross the border to counter a Bosnian army offensive as fighting surges in both republics of the former Yugoslavia.

54.   Rebel Serbs were routed by a Croatian army offensive in early August and have suffered their first defeats in Bosnia over the last several months.

55.   Rebels launched an attack on a military garrison in the area, prompting an army offensive.

56.   Serb missiles rained on the Croatian capital for a second day Wednesday in retaliation for a successful Croatian army offensive.

57.   Serbs in Croatia also were accused of expelling Croats from territory they held before the Croatian army offensives.

58.   Serbs, meanwhile, repudiated U.N. authority in Bosnia because the peacekeepers failed to intervene last week during a Croatian army offensive against Serbs in Croatia.

59.   Several rebels were also arrested during the army offensive in Rolpa, which came after Maoists attacked a team of security forces patrolling the area, the ministry said.

60.   Tamil Tiger rebels fleeing a Sri Lankan army offensive are flowing into muddy camps without food, drinking water or shelter.