11.   An Australian fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and captured by northern alliance fighters would soon be handed over to U.S. military forces, the government said Friday.

12.   Another opposition spokesman, Ibrahim Ghafoori, claimed alliance fighters advanced six to nine miles toward Mazar-e-Sharif in brisk fighting Monday and Tuesday.

13.   An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of eight northern alliance soldiers and about six wounded alliance fighters outside the fort on Tuesday.

14.   And now his new client is Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek and northern alliance fighter who heads the Junbish militia.

15.   As diplomats work toward peace, northern alliance fighters were preparing to finish off the Taliban in Kunduz.

16.   As northern alliance fighters advanced into Kabul, a senior U.S. official said the Bush administration prefers that no single group take control of the capital.

17.   At Khair Khana Pass on Tuesday, thousands of northern alliance fighters celebrated atop tanks and armored personnel carriers.

18.   Bari said alliance fighters were withdrawing their positions to put their troops at a safe distance from U.S. bombs hitting Taliban forces.

19.   Black scarves bound their arms, and alliance fighters were cutting the bonds from the bodies with knives and scissors.

20.   British ground troops are inside Afghanistan, providing assistance to northern alliance fighters, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said Sunday.