11.   A spokesman for the anti-Taliban alliance said there was fierce fighting near the city, but that the Taliban religious militia had been unable to enter.

12.   Across town, Haji Zaman Gham Sherek of the anti-Taliban alliance fighting near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, shrugged off Taliban optimism as empty bluster.

13.   Albanian sources reported continued fighting near the strategic central town of Orahovac.

14.   Although Ethiopia and Eritrea are engaged in a border conflict, there is no fighting near the area.

15.   An APTV crew and an AP photographer witnessed the fierce fighting near Glodjane Wednesday morning.

16.   Because of restricted access and communications problems, U.N. peacekeepers had little new information on the fighting near Tuzla.

17.   British officers told reporters traveling with them that the convoy may be slowed by reported fighting near Urosevac, presumably between Serb-led forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas.

18.   Chechen authorities were rushing reinforcements to the area of heavy fighting near the village of Dolinsk, just north of the capital, Grozny, ITAR-Tass said.

19.   Continued heavy fighting near Labone could keep help from reaching the wounded, some of whom are severely injured.

20.   Elsewhere, Maj. Herve Gourmelon, a U.N. spokesman, reported continued fighting near Velika Kladusa, a stronghold of renegade Muslims allied with rebel Serbs.