11.   After several hours of negotiations, the troops carried out a successful operation to free the hostages and seize the five sailors, Interfax reported.

12.   At the Brazda camp near the Macedonian capital of Skopje, NATO troops carried the old people off ambulances on stretchers, or helped the stooped figures down.

13.   At one home Monday, troops carried out family members who refused to leave.

14.   Before midnight, U.S. troops carried out a dramatic rescue effort involving an unidentified civilian who had sustained gunshot wounds to his head.

15.   Elite army troops carried out the raid over several days on a secret conclave of Islamic extremists in the rugged woods west of Algiers, the reports said.

16.   Government troops have carried out house-to-house searches for rebels throughout the week.

17.   He said secret police and uniformed Indonesian troops carried out the attack in four military vehicles, using tear gas and firing live ammunition at random.

18.   In Jenin, Israeli troops carried out house-to-house searches, arresting the head of military intelligence, Mohammed Abu Hanana, and his bodyguard, Palestinian security officials said.

19.   In the West Bank, meanwhile, Israeli troops carried out several raids, arresting two dozen wanted Palestinians, the military said.

20.   Israeli troops have carried out mass arrests in the Tulkarem refugee camp over the weekend.