11.  With enhanced communications abilities, these submarines also will provide important battle group and joint force support, according to the Pentagon.

12.  Participants in this joint force will enter Grozny on Saturday evening after taking an oath in the eastern village of Starye Atagi, Interfax said.

13.  A joint peacekeeping force made up of Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian troops is monitoring the dividing line between South Ossetia and the rest of Georgia.

14.  A spokesman for the Georgian contingent of the joint peacekeeping force earlier said that the peacekeepers had deserted their unit.

15.  Aidid said a joint force of militiamen loyal to him and Ali Mahdi was guarding the air and sea ports following the departure of U.N. soldiers.

16.  Also Friday, the United States and Russia agreed on a joint force that would support a peace agreement in Bosnia.

17.  An uneasy cease-fire has for the most part ended eight months of fighting between them and a joint force of Yugoslav army and Serb police forces.

18.  And the joint force did not expect to encounter al-Qaida fighters in the mountain pass leading to Shah-e-Kot, Afghan fighters said.

19.  Blunkett rejected a suggestion by Conservative lawmaker Nicholas Soames that France and Britain form a joint military force to patrol the tunnel portals.

20.  If the U.N. would not extend the mandate, he suggested another joint force be sent to Macedonia, this time under NATO.