His native troops deserted when they saw the enemy.

There had been 40 killed, but 1,096 troops had deserted.

He left the city in order to fight the British at their landing place, but his troops deserted.

After 39 days of bombing, some 100,000 Iraqi troops had deserted and 20 percent of their heavy equipment was destroyed.

His troops are deserting in their hundreds, taking their arms with them.

Though Lochry's troops were not deserting he also had a difficult situation.

"Why did our own troops think we were going to desert?"

However, the troops, upon hearing the news, collapsed and deserted him.

The surviving troops were panicking now, firing into one another, deserting their posts, and fighting to get aboard the assault boat.

The Iraqi troops "standing up" in Anbar are deserting at a rate as high as 40 percent.