21.   Turkish forces are currently engaged in an operation against the rebels in neighboring northern Iraq.

22.   U.S. planners and observers had long assumed Iraq planned to try to engage coalition forces in an infantry battle.

23.   French forces have been engaged in the US-led war against al-Qeada and Taliban extremists in neighbouring Afghanistan.

24.   French forces have been engaged in the effort to crush the al-Qaeda network of terror operatives led by Osama bin Laden.

25.   Guinean forces are already engaged in UN peacekeeping missions in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Western Sahara.

26.   Aidid captured Baidoa last month, but fighters of the Rahanwein clan opposed to him still engage his forces in sporadic skirmishes from areas surrounding the town.

27.   And it said its troops had engaged Ugandan forces in the north, along another frontline.

28.   But in a radio broadcast Monday, LPC leader George Boley denied his forces were engaged in any fighting in the area.

29.   China backs the Communist North, and engage US forces, fighting under the UN banner, in battle.

30.   The rival forces have been engaged in clashes for several months in Badghis, which is largely Taliban controlled.