41.   Just two months ago, troops drove the rebels from the northern Jaffna Peninsula where they had run a virtually autonomous state for years.

42.   Last August, government troops drove out Abdic and his soldiers.

43.   Macedonian army officials said troops drove the rebels out of the hamlet near the border with Kosovo but did not enter it because they feared land mines.

44.   Meanwhile, residents of an exclusive Algiers compound said Muslim militants tried to set up a fake police checkpoint before troops drove them off, killing two of them.

45.   Nationalist Chinese troops drive Japanese soldiers from Hanchuk in southern China, and another Nationalist force retakes Hsinning.

46.   On Thursday, Macedonian troops drove ethnic Albanian insurgents from their stronghold on the border with Kosovo.

47.   Russian troops drive rebels from the city.

48.   Serb military sources claimed Tuesday that Serb troops had driven government forces off a nearby peak in the Majevica range.

49.   Talking to reporters in the war-shattered capital, Abdullah said government troops also drove opposition fighters from the Lataband Pass in eastern Nangarhar province.

50.   Supported by Armenia, separatist troops have driven Azerbaijani government forces out of the enclave and seized some territories in Azerbaijan itself.