Today, after several rounds of retaliatory Katyushas fell on Qiryat Shemona, Israel sent gunships and warplanes against targets in Beirut, Nabatiye, Tyre and Baalbek, while artillery pounded villages north of the buffer zone.

Lebanese security officials said that while the planes dropped air-to-surface missiles on targets east of the port city of Sidon 25 miles south of here, Israeli long-range artillery pounded villages north of the "security zone."

Also today, Israeli forces and their Christian-led Lebanese militia allies pounded six Shiite towns and villages in southern Lebanon with field artillery.

The Army said the warplanes pounded villages where one of the most radical Palestinian guerrilla groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, has its strongholds.

Chechen officials have repeatedly complained that Russian planes have pounded innocent villages.

The two days of attacks, which left eight wounded, led to retaliatory raids by Israeli forces, whose artillery pounded villages north of the zone dominated by the Islamic Party of God.

Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded villages in southern Lebanon for the third straight day today in attacks intended to drive residents out of the southern part of the country until assaults on Israel by pro-Iranian guerrillas are halted.

Hundreds of Serbian policemen pounded villages in central Kosovo with mortar rounds today, set fire to homes and appeared to shoot at men indiscriminately in a sweep to stamp out a separatist movement of ethnic Albanians, according to those who fled the zone.

The Serb forces took full advantage of this, routinely pounding Zadar, Šibenik, Sinj and villages throughout the region with artillery and unguided rockets, and openly working with JNA units which, under the terms of the ceasefire, were required to withdraw to FR Yugoslavia.

Russian aircraft and artillery pounded villages throughout Chechnya today, trying to stamp out rebel resistance, and casualties on both sides appeared to be high.