21.   Opposition fighters on a front line north of Kabul have deferred their expected offensive on the Afghan capital.

22.   Opposition fighters on the hill in front of his had been able to overrun the two dugouts after U.S. warplanes bombed Taliban targets, he said.

23.   Opposition fighters told The Associated Press on Friday that two Americans had been grazed by machine-gun bullets in the Tora Bora area.

24.   Opposition fighters were reported to have pushed back government forces in the region in recent days.

25.   Powell cited widespread hostility to the anti-Taliban northern alliance as a reason to deter the opposition fighters from taking over.

26.   A cease-fire went into effect Saturday between Tajik government troops and opposition fighters, aimed at ending years of fighting in the former Soviet republic in Central Asia.

27.   A Chechen opposition fighter in Znamenskoye, another anti-Dudayev stronghold controlled by the Russians, was among those saying he was ready to change sides.

28.   A number of opposition fighters were also taken prisoner, the radio said.

29.   A truck carrying opposition fighters broke down along the road through the Shomali Plain.

30.   Abdullah denied reports that opposition fighters had massacred Taliban in areas the alliance captured in its five-day sweep that brought the entire north under its control.