1.   For more than two months, Indian troops battled to drive out hundreds of infiltrators now believed to have been mainly Pakistani army regulars.

2.   In the heart of Europe, American troops had battled their way across the Rhine and were headed toward Berlin and the fall of Nazi Germany.

3.   Instead, Northern Alliance troops battled the remaining men to the end.

4.   Israel said it would accept a United Nations fact-finding mission, maintaining that its troops battled armed Palestinian combatants, not civilians.

5.   It is looting, however, that remains the main criminal activity that NATO troops are battling with full time.

6.   Nigerian troops battled the rebels as part of a West African force before the U.N. peacemakers arrived.

7.   Scores of people were feared killed while government troops battled for four hours to put down the prisoner rebellion and regain control of the fort.

8.   Scores of people were feared killed while government troops battled for four hours to put down the prisoner rebellion.

9.   U.S. troops battled enemy forces Wednesday in a hit-and-run fight that military officials say could become increasingly common in Afghanistan.

10.   Also Tuesday, troops battled rebels from the larger group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in central Mindanao.