11.   Jets belonging to a warlord who is battling the new Taliban government bombarded the shattered capital Sunday, killing four people, including a small child.

12.   Jets belonging to a warlord who is battling the new Taliban government bombarded the shattered capital Sunday, killing four people.

13.   Maidan Shar is considered strategic because it is on the crossroads of three major roads that lead into the shattered Afghan capital of Kabul.

14.   Meanwhile, the cleanup of the shattered Chechen capital, Grozny, picked up speed Tuesday.

15.   Meanwhile, newly formed joint Russian-Chechen patrols tried to establish control over the shattered capital, Grozny.

16.   Opposition troops marched toward the shattered Afghan capital Wednesday, capturing a strategic base south of the city and moving their rockets within range of Kabul, authorities said.

17.   Opposition Taliban troops marched toward the shattered Afghan capital Wednesday capturing a strategic base south of the city and moving their rockets within range of Kabul, authorities said.

18.   President Burhanuddin Rabbani vowed Tuesday to push his Taliban enemies to beyond rocket range of the shattered Afghan capital.

19.   Russian artillery and aircraft fire pounded the shattered Chechen capital Saturday as the battle to recapture Grozny from separatist fighters went into a fifth day.

20.   Russian soldiers resumed their withdrawal from the shattered Chechen capital Wednesday under a timetable that calls for them to be completely gone by the end of the week.