1.   Red Cross officials said they had been unable to reach the area because all their vehicles at their nearby Vojnic office had been stolen by the invading Croat soldiers.

2.   Centuries ago, invading Muslim soldiers who converted the region to Islam sliced away the faces of the two Buddhas, believing images were sacrilegious.

3.   Centuries ago, the invading Muslim soldiers who converted the region to Islam sliced away the faces of the two Buddhas, believing images were sacrilegious.

4.   For three days, armed Cuban construction workers fought invading U.S. soldiers, who were accompanied by a token force of Eastern Caribbean troops.

5.   Islamic groups, who fought together to oust invading Russian soldiers, turned their weapons on each other in successive bids for power.

6.   The Islamic groups, who had forced the withdrawal of invading Soviet soldiers three years earlier, banned alcohol.

7.   The guerrilla fighters, once allied against invading Russian soldiers, turned their weapons on each other in successive bids for power.

8.   Grozny succumbed to a furious Russian air and artillery assault, with invading soldiers often pillaging what had escaped the bombs and shells.