11.   The American troops will join Kuwaiti forces for about three weeks of live-fire training in the desert.

12.   The front-line bombing intensified last week when U.S. Special Forces troops joined Northern Alliance forces and began pinpointing targets for U.S. fliers.

13.   The United States soon reduced its force as foreign troops joined the U.N. peacekeeping operation.

14.   Police and Defense Ministry troops joined in the search in Dagestan for remaining rebels.

15.   Australian troops have joined the U.S.-led international coalition in a campaign against terrorism.

16.   British troops joined their American counterparts for a Christmas dinner of turkey and pumpkin pie in an empty hangar at Bagram air base near Kabul.

17.   Defense Minister George Fernandes said that army troops had joined New Delhi police at the scene.

18.   Ethnic Tutsi soldiers, fearing the same persecution they had endured under Mobutu, spearheaded the rebellion and were soon joined by troops from other parts of Congo.

19.   Fernandes said that army troops had joined New Delhi police at the scene.

20.   Former rebel leader Riak Machar says his troops will join the government in fighting his onetime allies who have seized a strip of territory in eastern Sudan.