11.   The U.S. government does not have direct aid programs to Afghanistan, but provides significant financial support to a number of humanitarian organizations that operate in the embattled country.

12.   Three U.S. amphibious ships based in the Adriatic Sea headed to Liberia Thursday to help evacuate foreigners from the embattled West African country.

13.   Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani has made a conditional offer to step down for the sake of a peace settlement in his embattled country, Afghan sources said here Monday.

14.   Both France and Britain, the leading contributors of ground forces in Bosnia, have expressed growing reluctance to allow their troops to remain in the embattled country.

15.   Dabengwa said Zimbabwe would, under international regulations, only accept Zairean refugees if they were denied asylum by countries sharing common borders with the embattled central African country.

16.   There were however no territorial gains by either side in the battle near the southwest highway linking Kabul with the southwest of the embattled country, the communique added.