1.   Police said they thwarted a possible terrorist attack in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday that left two suspected Muslim militants dead and three others in custody.

2.   A police raid on Muslim extremist hideouts in southern Egypt Wednesday left four suspected militants dead and an unspecified number of policemen wounded, police said.

3.   Israeli warplanes attacked guerrillas Wednesday as they fought with Israeli-allied militiamen in clashes that left four militants dead, militia officials in southern Lebanon said.

4.   Meanwhile, police said they thwarted a possible terrorist attack in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday that left two suspected Muslim militants dead and three others in custody.

5.   Overnight clashes between rival ethnic Albanian rebel factions in Macedonia left at least two militants dead and several others wounded, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday.

6.   The pitched battles on the border between the breakaway republic and neighboring Dagestan left one Russian soldier and nine Chechen militants dead, according to news agency reports.

7.   The two separate shootouts in the southeastern city of Van left five policemen and three militants dead.

8.   Two months of fighting in the India-held region has left hundreds of Indian soldiers and Pakistan-based militants dead or wounded.