11.   The emphasis in Navy shipbuilding appears to be shifting gradually from ships designed to assert control over oceans to ships designed to assist amphibious forces moving ashore.

12.   The Rwandan government said Monday an international force to help refugees was irrelevant at this point and that Rwanda was not ready to assist the force in any way.

13.   U.S. troops, meanwhile, assist Afghan forces in a disarmament campaign in a volatile southern town.

14.   Emergency measures, however, will continue to be enforced throughout the war-torn regions in the northeast to assist security forces fighting LTTE rebels, officials said.

15.   They recently assisted Pakistani forces in a raid on an Islamic seminary in the northwestern tribal area, in search of a senior commander with the Taliban militia.

16.   US troops are advising and assisting local forces but are barred from actual combat with the Abu Sayyaf except in self defense.

17.   US troops recently assisted Pakistani forces in a raid on an Islamic seminary in the northwestern tribal area, in search of a senior commander with the Taliban militia.