51.   The conflict has come to dominate Turkish life and has been used to justify measures ranging from limiting freedom of expression to burning villages in combat zones.

52.   The crash of a US helicopter in Afghanistan Friday night illustrated the risks and challenges of sending American troops into the combat zone.

53.   The family said Afghanistan was his fifth combat zone, and that he had also served in Somalia and Haiti.

54.   The handful of foreign diplomats who have been allowed to visit the combat zones report that the government appears to be trying to clear rebel forces from major roads.

55.   The incident stunned Canadians, who have suffered few military deaths in combat zones in recent years.

56.   The men and women in this plane are miles from the combat zone, generally out of range of missile attacks and protected by a shield of fighter jets.

57.   The military may be accustomed to war and losing comrades, but the civilians who work at the Pentagon had not expected to find themselves in a combat zone.

58.   The report could not be independently confirmed, since Russian troops have set up roadblocks across the combat zone.

59.   The planes fly low and slow over combat zones with the aim of destroying tanks, armored personnel carriers and heavy artillery.

60.   The team has been headquartered in a spare hotel room in Ingushetia just miles from the Chechen combat zone.