21.  Turkish warplanes stationed in Italy are participating in the NATO airstrikes in defensive action.

22.  Turkish planes are participating in the airstrikes in defensive action.

23.  Turkish warplanes based in Italy have been used for defensive actions in the strikes.

24.  He denied that the Cambodian army had launched offensives in the area, but said government troops had been forced to take defensive action against marauding rebels.

25.  Duran Ballen said Ecuadoran forces were taking only defensive actions along the border but that fighting was continuing.

26.  Troops deployed in the port were forced to take the defensive action on two occasions, late Saturday and early Sunday morning, a spokesman for the force said.

27.  Prince Ranariddh said government troops had received strict directives against attacking rebel positions, but had been forced to take defensive action against marauding rebels.

28.  The first was as a defensive action ahead of feared Israeli retaliatory strikes against bases of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in the Bekaa Valley, a Syrian stronghold.