1.   Afghanistan, filled with armed combatants, has proved to be a particularly dangerous assignment.

2.   Israel said it would accept a United Nations fact-finding mission, maintaining that its troops battled armed Palestinian combatants, not civilians.

3.   The conflict is not limited to armed combatants, and recent incidents have specifically targeted the few vacationers who have come to Kashmir.

4.   When police arrived and the heavily armed combatants withdrew, Correa hastily threw some clothes in a suitcase.