1.   The mortar team have started up again, sending their shells through the drizzle.

2.   Before the vice president began speaking, gun batteries on rooftops sent tracer shells streaking across the sky shortly after sundown.

3.   Defiant Taliban at the front launched their first mortar attack in days, sending shells onto a heavily trafficked front-line road out of Kunduz.

4.   Gun batteries on Baghdad rooftops sent tracer shells streaking across the sky.

5.   Gun batteries on rooftops sent tracer shells streaking across the sky.

6.   The blasts sent shells flying as far as nine miles away from the remote site near Talovy village, said the emergency ministry officials.

7.   The rebels later struck again, sending mortar shells crashing near army positions.

8.   The Taliban responded with their first mortar attack in days, sending shells onto a heavily trafficked front-line road out of Kunduz.

9.   In one case, a shell was sent through the roof of a home before it was even completed.