81.   Mohammad Razak, a farmer also from Charikar, said many fleeing civilians were killed or wounded by land mines placed by opposition fighters to stop the Taliban advance.

82.   Mohammed Abil, a spokesman of the anti-Taliban alliance, said opposition fighters destroyed several Taliban posts overnight in a guerrilla attack north of Kabul.

83.   Moscow wants to prevent the Taliban from joining up with the Tajik opposition fighters.

84.   Northern alliance opposition fighters helped by U.S. and British special forces claimed to have quashed the uprising at a fortress prison.

85.   Opposition fighters moved quickly through Kabul neighborhoods, conducting house-to-house searches and seizing abandoned bases.

86.   Opposition fighters said they had pulled back about a half-mile from their front line to avoid being caught in the U.S. fire.

87.   On Tuesday night, two groups of Tajik opposition fighters crossed the Tajik-Afghan border and opened fire on Russian guards.

88.   On the Afghan border, opposition fighters fired on a Russian army helicopter Friday, wounding two Russian soldiers, news reports said.

89.   One opposition fighter and one gunman loyal to the Sadirovs have been killed in the confrontation, Mirzoyev said.

90.   On Tuesday, Afghan opposition fighters captured the Afghan capital of Kabul, which was abandoned by the Taliban troops.