21.   But the Taliban has suffered a series of stunning reversals in the past week at the hands of Masood, who retook several towns that had been lost.

22.   The official sudan news agency SUNA said the armed forces had retaken the towns of Wad Elias, Yagro and Yarda towns, captured by anti-government forces last January.

23.   The sources quoted by Beta also said that a Bosnian Serb counter-offensive to try and retake the towns of Grahovo and Glamoc was failing.

24.   The statement did not indicate when the town was retaken.

25.   The town was retaken by the army on Sunday.

26.   There were also people from Glamoc, a Serb-held town recently retaken by the Croatian army.

27.   Its owners, the Radanovic family, had fled Petrinja, Croatia last August as Croatian army forces retook the town from Serb secessionists.

28.   Karadzic, however, has ordered his army to retake the towns lying on key supply routes linking Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.

29.   On Saturday, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered a counter-offensive to retake both towns.

30.   Sudanese television showed pictures of soldiers and police preparing for an offensive to try to retake the towns of Kurmuk and Qeissan.