1.   In an interview in Balata last week, a senior member of the group, Naser Badawi, said Al Aksa had adopted a strategy of attacking checkpoints.

2.   In November, a group of Albanians attacked a checkpoint with automatic fire, the Serbian police said.

3.   Palestinian forces have rarely attacked army checkpoints in the past, and when they did they usually fired from a distance.

4.   Russian soldiers at three checkpoints were fired on overnight and four other checkpoints were attacked, a spokesman for the international peacekeeping forces said here Friday.

5.   Palestinian militants on Friday attacked a checkpoint north of Ramallah in the West Bank, killing an Israeli, Israeli security sources said.

6.   Police and rebels exchanged fire early Saturday near the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo when militants attacked a police checkpoint there, police spokesman Stevo Pendarovski said.

7.   Arafat launched an arrest sweep last week after a suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad attacked a checkpoint outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and killed three soldiers.

8.   Fighting raged in the center of the Chechen capital, Grozny, early Monday after rebel fighters attacked Russian checkpoints, the Interfax news agency said.

9.   Fighting raged in the center of the Chechen capital, Grozny, throughout the night after rebel fighters attacked Russian checkpoints, the Interfax news agency said.

10.   Goran Erakovic was killed early Sunday when Albanian militants attacked a checkpoint along the main Decane-Djakovica road running across western Kosovo.