1.   The mountainous enclave is claimed by India and Pakistan and has sparked two rounds of open warfare between the regional powers since their independence from Britain.

2.   Though their defeat seemed a foregone conclusion, the surrounded government troops in the steep mountainous enclave were holding fast.

3.   After several years of fighting, the Karabakh rebels drove Azerbaijani armed forces out of the mountainous enclave and seized a large swath of land in Azerbaijan proper.

4.   Bosnian leaders on Thursday rejected Serb terms for surrendering the mountainous Muslim enclave of Zepa, leaving the fate of thousands of its civilians in doubt.

5.   Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said Thursday that Serb forces were massing on two sides of the mountainous enclave in preparation for an apparent pincer attack.

6.   Capture of the remote mountainous enclave southeast of Sarajevo would widen Serb control over a strategic swath of land between the capital and the Serbian border.

7.   Capture of the remote mountainous enclave southeast of Sarajevo widens Serb control over a strategic swath of land between the capital and the Serbian border.

8.   During a meeting with President Robert Kocharian, Kennedy referred to Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave populated by Armenia but located inside neighboring Azerbaijan.

9.   Gen. Ratko Mladic made the statement Wednesday as civilians quietly boarded buses to leave the mountainous enclave for territory held by the Bosnian government.

10.   Gen. Ratko Mladic made the statement Wednesday as civilians quietly boarded buses to leave the mountainous enclave for government-held territory.