11.   No SLA members were hurt in the fighting, the militia officials said.

12.   Others -- many of them high-ranking militia officials -- fled to Israel.

13.   Opposition militia officials in the neighboring Republic of Congo lashed out Saturday at President Laurent Kabila for reportedly dispatching hundreds of soldiers across the Congo River to Brazzaville.

14.   Taliban commanders in Kunduz have agreed to leave the city without their weapons in exchange for safe passage guarantees, according to both alliance and militia officials.

15.   The bodies were transported to Israel, a militia official said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

16.   The rest -- many of them high-ranking militia officials -- fled to Israel.

17.   Iran is the biggest block to international recognition of the fundamentalist Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, a senior militia official told AFP Wednesday.

18.   A third bomb, claimed by Hezbollah, wounded a policeman and Hanna Hashem, an SLA security officer whose brother Akl Hashem is considered a senior militia official.