1.   He has commanded an infantry brigade and artillery regiments as well as serving in various commando battalions.

2.   Ignoring a new cease-fire, opposition fighters kept up their siege Friday of an encircled government commando battalion in eastern Tajikistan.

3.   Iraq on Thursday accused Turkey of sending two commando battalions into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.

4.   The government accused the rebels of besieging a commando battalion near Garm in eastern Tajikistan and staging other attacks.

5.   The two soldiers were identified to journalists as Henri-Claude Kalisa, a sub-lieutenant in a Rwandan army commando battalion and Ugandan corporal, Kenneth Mugisha.

6.   The infantry units include a commando battalion trained for company-level daylight attacks, night defensive operations, platoon raids and air mobile operations.