21.   Government jets circled above the battlefield, dropping parachute flares to light the area during early morning fighting, while tanks rumbled through Kabul toward the fighting.

22.   Government jets pounded rival Taliban positions south of Kabul on Saturday in retaliation for a deadly rocket assault that killed six people a day earlier.

23.   Government jets responded with air strikes.

24.   Government jets and helicopter gunships bombed rebel positions Wednesday night and Thursday morning, a government spokesman said.

25.   Government jets bombed a major rebel stronghold south of the capital Kabul, a rebel spokesman said Sunday.

26.   Government jets bombed a rebel stronghold south of the Afghan capital Sunday, triggering a series of retaliatory rocket attacks on the city, the defense ministry said.

27.   Government jets bombed opposition strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan, authorities said Sunday.

28.   Government jets bombed rebel positions south of Kabul, repelling fighters from the Taliban militia whose rocketing of a suburb reportedly killed six people, military officials said Wednesday.

29.   Government jets bombed southern targets Wednesday and angry crowds ready for civil war manned comandeered tanks and fired anti-aircraft guns at warplanes overflying their port town.

30.   Government jets have stepped up bombing of rebel positions in northern Sri Lanka during the week.