11.   Later, alliance troops fought over possession of the trucks.

12.   More important, in times of threat, it insists on being able to reinforce new members with alliance troops.

13.   Most alliance troops regard the foreign Taliban troops as invaders who have wrecked their country, and they hold them in an especially bitter contempt.

14.   Northern alliance troops have parked a truck across the entrance to the hotel.

15.   Outflanked, the Pakistanis in the fort found themselves under heavy rifle, rocket and mortar fire from alliance troops, with nobody to command them.

16.   Persistent reports filtering out of the sealed zone suggest that alliance troops may be killing many refugees.

17.   Russia would be excluded until alliance troops were firmly ensconced in their various sectors.

18.   Some alliance soldiers said few Taliban soldiers showed up for the collections and some argued with alliance troops.

19.   Since June, tens of thousands of alliance troops and a U.N. administration have failed to prevent de facto partition of Kosovo and continued ethnic bloodshed.

20.   Taliban forces engaged alliance troops in small-arms skirmishes and tanks and mortar duels throughout the day.