If he could threaten her flank, she couldn't drive troops around to the west to exploit his weakness.

The United States has been trying for eight years to drive Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

But for an army mechanic who volunteered to drive troops into combat near Hilla, an Iraqi grenade attack from close quarters was very real.

Sidney led a successful attack which drove German troops out of a gully.

Russian forces drove Georgian troops out of the region, which declared independence from Georgia in 1991 and has been run by a secessionist government ever since.

Three and a half years ago, an American-led coalition drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

A coalition of holy warriors, supplied by the United States, eventually drove Russian troops out.

This drove royal troops out of the city in the first outbreak of political violence that became the revolution.

Terrorist attacks drove American and French troops from Lebanon once before, in 1983.

It emerged with financial backing from Iran in the early 1980s and began a struggle to drive Israeli troops from Lebanon.