1.   But people fleeing renewed fighting in August told similar stories of being forced from their villages last year by government soldiers and allied militias.

2.   For years Hezbollah forces relentlessly attacked the Israeli army and its allied militias and avenged Lebanese civilian casualties by shelling Israeli settlements.

3.   In Lebanon, Barak was responding to stepped up attacks against Israeli troops, and their allied Lebanese militia, by the Hezbollah guerrillas.

4.   Israeli forces and allied Lebanese militia occupy the south.

5.   They know that the strongmen and their allied militia still are armed and hostile toward supporters of Aristide.

6.   Over the weekend, it met with allied Croat militias to coordinate strategy.

7.   Over the weekend, top commanders of the government army and allied Croat militias met to plan their joint strategy.

8.   Afghan Taliban and a hard core of allied foreign Islamic militia had held off northern-based opposition alliance forces at Kunduz for two weeks.

9.   Also Saturday, government sources said a key power station which supplies much of the south of the country with electricity has been recovered from allied Zulu militia fighters.

10.   Artillery battles pitting Israeli and allied militia gunners against Shiite Muslim guerrillas rocked south Lebanon on Saturday.