31.   But the alliance said it would not accept their surrender unless any top leaders with them also turned themselves in.

32.   But the alliance says the environmental dangers in the East are more pressing.

33.   But the anti-Taliban alliance says the Taliban also has massacres to answer for.

34.   By the evening, the northern alliance said it had wiped out the Taliban resistance inside the fortress.

35.   By Wednesday, fighting had stopped and the alliance said only a handful of holdouts might have survived.

36.   Earlier, another mistake led to the bombing of a train crossing a bridge, which the alliance said was a legitimate military target.

37.   Eastern alliance says it has captured the last al-Qaida positions around Tora Bora.

38.   Greece and Turkey have tentatively settled a long-standing dispute over sharing airspace for military flights over the Aegean Sea, the NATO alliance said Monday .

39.   If the reforms are not forthcoming, the alliance has said it would disrupt the elections.

40.   Hundreds of foreign fighters captured in the siege of the northern city of Kunduz were killed in a prison riot, the northern alliance said Sunday.