21.   He said he would be willing to fight against his former comrades in their remaining northern stronghold, Anlong Veng.

22.   He said they would be willing to fight against his former comrades in their remaining northern stronghold, Anlong Veng.

23.   Hours after Taliban troops entered the northern stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif, fighters of the Shiite militia Hezb-e-Wahadat revolted.

24.   If Jajce were to fall, Croat-Muslim forces would be in a position to threaten Banja Luka, a northern Serb stronghold.

25.   In the northern Serb stronghold Banja Luka, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he saw no reason to take back by force territory Serbs recently have lost.

26.   Iran has sent several high-powered delegations to the Afghan capital and to Mazar-e-Sharif, the northern Afghan stronghold of Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum.

27.   NATO-led troops came to the aid of the Bosnian Serb president Wednesday, sealing off police stations and seizing truckloads of illegal weapons in her northern stronghold.

28.   News reports said Dostum, who escaped to Uzbekistan after his northern stronghold was captured by the forces of the Taliban Islamic militia, would ask Turkey for asylum.

29.   Nhek Bunchhay, a key FUNCINPEC member, was spearheading talks with hard-liners still holed up in the northern stronghold of Anlong Veng.

30.   Observers fear that Milosevic might have to commit the Yugoslav army if the Croats and Muslims make a thrust at the northern Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka.