But most devices in the ground are the afterlife of earlier fighting.

Largely destroyed in earlier fighting, Pailin is nearly empty of civilians.

The birds had all either hidden or flown away during the earlier fighting.

French and Piedmontese troops, a total of about 7,000 to 8,000, enjoyed success in the early fighting.

Rush was wounded in the early fighting but continued to direct the efforts of his brigade.

They have proved their worth as training aircraft and even during the early fighting in 1998.

Many of the victims are from cities the earlier fighting rarely reached.

Most of the Rats died in the early fighting.

Obviously their survivors from the earlier fighting had been reinforced.

The rebels had asserted that the Government lost more than 8,000 dead, wounded or captured in the earlier fighting.