1.   As in Afghanistan, their targets were mostly dug-in troops and militia fighters, dispersed away from their barracks and hiding in fortified and camouflaged positions.

2.   By attacking these complexes, the Pentagon hopes to kill militia fighters and destroy many of their essential supplies.

3.   Forty-six militia fighters reportedly abandoned three crucial outposts in Lebanon on Sunday.

4.   Militia fighters were firing guns and menacing the compound in Dili, they were told.

5.   The Israeli Army says the shooting was done by Palestinian militia fighters.

6.   Pro-government militia fighters began laying down their arms in Freetown as a U.N. disarmament program got underway Friday, U.N. officials said.

7.   A cloud of smoke hung over Monrovia as homes set ablaze by militia fighters burned.

8.   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.

9.   Amnesty International on Wednesday accused government and rebel militia fighters in Republic of Congo of wholesale civilian executions, raping women and shelling populous neighborhoods.

10.   As a result, many of the government troops are onetime militia fighters who were never demobilized after the civil war.