1.   For the first time since being defeated in World War II, German forces are engaged in armed military action.

2.   For the first time since being defeated in World War II, German forces were engaged in armed military action.

3.   He declined to say whether Marines in recent days have engaged enemy forces on the outskirts of Kandahar.

4.   Notwithstanding severe losses of military and civilian personnel and material, air operations against the enemy are continuing, and our land and naval forces are heavily engaged.

5.   U.S. officials in Washington said Afghan and U.S. forces were engaged in heavy fighting.

6.   While military forces are engaged in a war of weapons in Afghanistan, frustrated civilians on both sides of the conflict are waging a war of words online.

7.   Police said that the rebels engaged security forces with guns, grenades and rockets, starting battles that lasted through early Friday.

8.   An unknown number of Chechen fighters have fanned out to the hills to engage Russian forces trying to seal the republic.

9.   As part of that campaign, German forces are engaged in their first combat mission since World War II.

10.   Chechen fighters have fanned out to the hills to engage Russian forces trying to seal off the republic and Russian helicopters swooped around the area most of the day.