11.   Also Monday morning, Iranian state radio reported that the important western city of Herat had fallen to opposition forces.

12.   Although his death has not caused the alliance to collapse, as his assassins no doubt had hoped, opposition forces have had more difficulty coordinating their attacks.

13.   An additional problem is that the opposition forces have no real leader and are divided into many parts.

14.   And he made clear that that victory will be determined by the progress of opposition forces.

15.   At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that if opposition forces fail to capture and punish Omar, U.S. aid for Afghanistan could be in jeopardy.

16.   At the heart of the conflict is to whom an agreement will give authority to distribute aid in northern Iraq, where Kurdish opposition forces live.

17.   A senior Defense Department official said after Rumsfeld spoke that the United States had not yet provided munitions directly to opposition forces in Afghanistan.

18.   Afghan opposition forces said they were advancing steadily toward Mazar-e-Sharif with the help of round-the-clock U.S. bombing.

19.   Afghan opposition forces, including Northern Alliance troops, closed in around the southern city of Kandahar, the last stronghold under Taliban control.

20.   But Denga, the farm manager, fears that the opposition forces may win out.