61.   Colombian rebels have ambushed a military patrol with dynamite on a northern road, killing eight soldiers and a civilian and injuring eight other soldiers, the army said.

62.   Currently, a small band of separatist rebels stages sporadic hit-and-run attacks on military patrols, and resentment toward Indonesian authority runs deep among many civilians.

63.   Divers and rescue teams equipped with two helicopters, another trawler and four military patrol boats were dispatched to the area to search for survivors, the officials said.

64.   Earlier this week, two grenades were thrown at an Afghan military patrol in eastern Afghanistan, killing three people, including two of the attackers.

65.   Entire villages were wiped out by military patrols searching for rebel sympathizers.

66.   Elsewhere, one soldier was killed in a fight between rebels and a military patrol near Manivasakulam village in the Trincomalee district.

67.   Exhausted, cut and bruised, the workers were picked up by a military patrol at a prearranged rendezvous point yesterday, according to military sources.

68.   Exhausted, cut and bruised, the workers were picked up by a military patrol at a prearranged rendezvous point Thursday, according to military and oil industry sources.

69.   For years the insurgents attacked soft targets like schools, hospitals and vehicle convoys without military escorts, but last year began attacking military patrols and outposts.

70.   Four rebels and a soldier were killed when troops repulsed two attacks on military patrols in the jungle at Salpe Aru on Sunday, a military spokesman said.