1.   But U.N. officials said that the overall level of the Israeli offensive and of Hezbollah rocket barrages had been markedly reduced.

2.   On Wednesday, under cover of an intense mortar and rocket barrage, Hezbollah guerrillas planted their flag outside the perimeter fence of an Israeli position.

3.   Russian television later showed a helicopter firing a rocket barrage at the Ingush village of Gazi-Yurt, reportedly destroying six houses and a mosque.

4.   The attacks came in retaliation for a rocket barrage on northern Israel launched earlier in the day by guerrillas in southern Lebanon.

5.   The U.S. Army insisted that the Apaches could not operate on their own, but would need the support of heavy rocket barrages to suppress Serb anti-aircraft weapons.

6.   A Hezbollah statement said the rocket barrage on the Israeli outpost in Bir Kallab destroyed a TOW missile launcher and inflicted casualties.

7.   A rocket slammed into an open field early Monday as rescue workers sifted through several neighborhoods of Kabul that were devastated by a rocket barrage a day earlier.

8.   An Afghan defense ministry spokesman known only as Asif said four civilians died overnight in a rocket barrage launched by Taliban fighters on the southern outskirts of Kabul.

9.   As a result, Hezbollah halted cross-border rocket barrages on northern Israel, and Israel ended a full-scale onslaught that had ranged all the way to Beirut.

10.   Before its troops entered early Tuesday, Israel fired a heavy rocket barrage across the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian policeman.