By empty (5/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Four US soldiers have been killed in action in southern Afghanistan, the US military says. The deaths occurred in the province of Zabul, which has seen regular attacks by Islamic militants. \"Four US service members assigned to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan were killed in action today.

By empty (5/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Chechen guerilla units have lost up to 20 people over the past three days, said spokesman for the regional headquarters for the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin. On May 26, federal forces launched special operations to hunt down guerillas led by warlords Abdullayev and Tasuyev in the Shali, Shatoi, and Vedeno districts in southern Chechnya.

By empty (5/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The problem of drug trafficking from Afghanistan needs to be resolved within Afghanistan itself, said Uzbek and Tajik Presidents Islam Karimov and Emomali Rakhmonov. \"Until this problem is resolved in Afghanistan itself, and until Afghanistan earmarks money to discourage the population from producing opium, no solution can be found. All these barriers that we are erecting are a secondary thing,\" Karimov said at a Friday press conference in Astana, following a regular meeting of the Central Asian Cooperation organization heads of state.