101.  It was unclear if this was the same clash between rebels and federal forces.

102.  ITAR-Tass said federal forces undertook no military action against the rebels.

103.  It said unidentified people shelled the village, where federal forces were deployed.

104.  ITAR-Tass said federal forces were observing an order issued Wednesday not to use arms and took no action against the rebels.

105.  Lebed was back in Chechnya to try to resolve problems that prompted federal forces to halt their withdrawal.

106.  Large-scale fighting ended in the small southern republic some two years ago, but rebels use small skirmishes and ambushes to bleed federal forces daily.

107.  Madrazo pledged he would keep trying to purge corrupt police from the federal force.

108.  Meanwhile, rebels killed three traffic police officers in a northern area that federal forces had claimed to control, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

109.  Military officials say federal forces captured Achkhoi-Martan on Monday.

110.  Most of the rebels have retreated to the mountains since abandoning the capital, Grozny, to federal forces.