11.   It begged an invitation for Canadian troops to play a combat, not peace keeping, role in Afghanistan.

12.   It struck Canadian troops conducting a routine live-fire exercise near Kandahar.

13.   Officials said that Canadian troops had properly notified their allied partners that the drill was taking place, and that the information was available to the pilots.

14.   The conditions under which Canadian troops served in Bosnia stand in sharp contrast to what U.S. soldiers encountered there.

15.   There have been particularly heated debates in the Commons about Canadian troops in Afghanistan handing prisoners over to Americans.

16.   Two U.S. fighter pilots were at fault in a friendly fire bombing in Afghanistan last spring that killed Canadian troops, according to investigations released Friday.

17.   US and Canadian troops pursued at least four Al Qaeda fighters after a short gun battle late Thursday, officials said.

18.   OTTAWA -- Defence Department report says drinking parties lay behind unseemly events that involved firing weapons and blood brother rituals among Canadian troops in Rwanda.

19.   Ouellet ruled out any participation by Canadian troops in peacekeeping efforts in the former Soviet Union.

20.   Ouellet said if Canadian troops are not needed to help civilians, they will return to Canada.