1.   The troops would separate warring forces for about a year and allow wounds of the devastating conflict to heal.

2.   Government troops separated women, children and elderly men from men of fighting age but provided them all with first aid, water and other necessities.

3.   Israel would like to have U.S. troops separate Syrian and Israeli forces in the Golan Heights.

4.   Israeli troops separated the Palestinians and settlers, and six Palestinians were hurt, Israel radio and Palestinian officials said.

5.   Israeli troops separated the sides.

6.   NATO repeatedly has stressed that its mission is not peacekeeping, and its troops cannot separate the two sides.

7.   Serbs live on one side of the Ibar river, Albanians on the other, and French troops separate them.

8.   There was agreement for U.N. troops to separate the warring sides.

9.   Today, NATO-led troops have separated the warring factions, shepherded heavy weapons into storage and are overseeing land transfers.

10.   IFOR troops separated the two groups who refused to disperse.