1.   The troops attacked at dawn.

2.   Troops attacked the fortress at dawn.

3.   At a news conference Wednesday, Amdemicael said the clash was the fifth occasion in the last week that Ethiopian troops had attacked Eritrean positions along the border.

4.   A plan allowing Iraq to export oil was suspended by the United Nations after Iraqi troops attacked a Kurdish minority group two weeks ago.

5.   After Nigerian naval forces bombarded the capital city, Freetown, local troops attacked and overran Nigerian positions.

6.   During the past couple of weeks, Turkish troops have attacked Kurdish separatist rebel groups that use northern Iraq as a base.

7.   Georgia denies this, and refuses to extradite any Chechens, or to allow Russian troops to attack Chechnya from its territory.

8.   His grandmother and mother, taken at the same time, were later killed when government troops attacked the guerrilla camp.

9.   In mid-December, Russian troops attacked to keep Chechnya in the Russian Federation and overthrow the secessionist Chechen leader, Dzhokhar M. Dudayev.

10.   Mexican troops have attacked rebel supporters recently in an attempt to weaken the rebel Zapatista army, Avendano said.