1.   In incidents separate from this operation, American and Australian troops killed four suspected Taliban or Qaida fighters along the Afghan frontier this week, military officials said.

2.   So feared has the university become that even men reared in the harsh gun culture of the Afghan frontier wilt at the sight of its gates.

3.   Pakistani troops are guarding the Afghan frontier to prevent Taliban and al-Qaida members from sneaking into the country.

4.   A mob beat a British correspondent for The Independent newspaper of London who had been traveling in western Pakistan toward the Afghan frontier.

5.   Iran responded by building up its forces along the Afghan frontier.

6.   On Saturday, a mob beat a British correspondent for The Independent newspaper of London who had been traveling in western Pakistan toward the Afghan frontier.

7.   To the west, Pakistani forces patrol the rugged Afghan frontier, guarding mountain passes to help the United States stop al-Qaida fugitives from creeping in.

8.   - The establishment of a corridor to the Afghan frontier to allow supplies to reach opposition military units at Badakhsan.

9.   An Afghan defense ministry source said Saturday that bin Laden had based himself in Peshawar, Pakistan, near the Afghan frontier.

10.   Another officer was killed at Piandj, near the Afghan frontier, and another was assassinated at Kurgan-Tiube, in southwestern Tajikistan.