1.   And he said Croatian troops had blocked Muslims from returning to their homes in Jajce, a strategic western town that Croatian troops recently captured from Serbs.

2.   Accounts of the fighting in Grozny, where Russian troops have captured several administrative buildings and the railway station, varied widely on Wednesday.

3.   Ali, who is also the security commander of three eastern Afghanistan provinces, said Afghan troops had captured the strategic territory in only a few hours.

4.   But it was a prelude to the larger battle at Vicksburg, where Union troops captured a major Mississippi River port city.

5.   Defence Ministry sources in Colombo claimed that large parts of the Vadamarchchi division in Jaffna had been captured by troops in the offensive, which is codenamed Riverasa Two.

6.   For the first time, British troops captured one Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect and shot another who resisted arrest.

7.   From the top of a hill, he watched Chinese troops capture two fellow controllers, then force them to their knees.

8.   Hajji Zahir, one of the main anti-Taliban commanders here, said that on Saturday his troops had captured three Arabs and nine Afghans.

9.   Jewish fighters capture the western portion of Jerusalem while Jordanian troops capture the eastern city and the Old City.

10.   Northern Alliance commanders claimed that their troops had captured the city of Kunduz Sunday night, overrunning the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan.