1.   If these terms were met, coalition forces would not attack retreating Iraqi forces, but any breach of these terms would bring an instant response from coalition forces.

2.   Bush thanked the Greek navy for its co-operation with coalition forces in the Gulf war.

3.   Greece contributed a frigate to the coalition forces in the Gulf war and participated in the trade embargo against Iraq.

4.   A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force, coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths.

5.   Helicopters in heavily armed formation brought the allied commanders to their meeting with Iraqi generals, the rendezvous, an Iraqi airbase occupied by coalition forces.

6.   Although ground action necessarily consummated the final victory for coalition forces, air power had made the final assault as effortless as a wartime operation can be.

7.   As coalition forces tried to deal with the latest round of infighting, much of their attention was focused on the border region.

8.   Asked if the coalition forces were planning missions aimed at capturing or killing Hekmatyar, McNeill declined to respond.

9.   Coalition forces have increased their activity recently against villages suspected of harboring Taliban or al-Qaida in western and southern Afghanistan.

10.   Coalition forces killed three more enemy fighters following a gun battle during one of the cave-clearing projects, the Canadian Press news agency reported Thursday.