1.   Now and then over the years, Palestinian militants have ambushed settlers coming and going, or killed soldiers guarding the terrain.

2.   On Wednesday, militants ambushed a police car in southern Egypt, killing one policeman and wounding four others.

3.   Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army patrol in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, and three Palestinians and one Israeli were killed.

4.   According to the Serb sources, the operation began after Albanian militants ambushed a Serb police patrol earlier in the day.

5.   Army officials said the two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with militants, but police said the militants ambushed the soldiers at a checkpoint.

6.   Elsewhere in Poonch, militants ambushed an army patrol killing one soldier and injuring three others.

7.   Ethnic Albanian militants ambushed Macedonian security forces on patrol near the tense boundary with Kosovo, killing eight and wounding eight others, a military spokesman said.

8.   Ethnic Albanian militants ambushed and killed eight Macedonian soldiers there in April.

9.   Hebron has been under night curfew since militants ambushed a passenger bus near the city and killed two Israelis last month.

10.   In September, the militants ambushed a military patrol, also in Tripura state, killing at least seven soldiers.