Egypt is under an invasion, the first one this go-through I've had. All of my actually good troops were all in the infirmary after a nearly-botched UFO crash site raid, so I had to send in The Rookies
TM.
Landed, move forward, don't see anything. Move a little bit farther, a chrysalid pops up, and I jumped everyone up and fanned out and blasted it. Moved a bit farther up, two more chrysalids, wiping out the locals. Move in, blast one, and the other runs for it. Dang it. So I move up to get at it, and right after I get in sight of it, some zombies spring up behind my squad, now they're surrounded. I run everyone around like crazy trying to not get killed, but 1 moron panics and decides to hunker down, so he's swarmed and murdered brutally. Then everything hit the fan. Once the first idiot died, everyone else started panicking and losing control, and got mobbed. I ended the mission by having the one guy smart enough to keep his cool hightail it to the choppa'.
Egypt immediately left the council after that.
X-COM: Enemy Within, this game is friggin' hard at times. But really fun, though.
I then had another time when I had all my good troops on bed rest, and had to send in The RookiesTM again, but everyone was a squaddie by that point, so even though I had an army of noobs fighting a cyberdisc, a quick rocket volley after with my 3 heavies let me still complete that mission with minimal losses.