91.   Meanwhile, an opposition spokesman, Mohammed Abil, said a bitter battle took place in Kalasgan, also in northern Takhar province.

92.   Meanwhile, flash floods killed three people in another northern mountainous province, Lai Chau, pushing the death toll there to six since early this month.

93.   Meanwhile, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it was suspending operations in the northern Cibitoke province because of a mine explosion Monday that killed nine Burundians.

94.   Meanwhile, the opposition claimed its fighters captured a district in the northern Bamyan province after heavy fighting.

95.   Meanwhile, the Taliban and its opponents were waging fierce battles in northern Takhar province in the district of Ishkamish.

96.   Miro was then governor of the northern Aleppo province.

97.   Minutes after he spoke, another car bomb exploded -- this time outside a police barracks in the town of Agreda in northern Soria province.

98.   Miodrag Isakov, from the Reformist Party in the northern Vojvodina province, became deputy prime minister of Serbia.

99.   Mohammed had fled his home in northern Kunduz province, traveling first to the capital, Kabul, before deciding to go to Pakistan in search of work.

100.   Most of the confrontations between the Taliban and opposition have been in northern Takhar province.