31.   Other Taliban leaders had also left the city, which had been their last stronghold.

32.   Overnight shelling fails to dislodge Cambodian resistance fighters from their last stronghold at the Thai border.

33.   Peru late Monday announced it had captured the last Ecuadorean stronghold in Peruvian territory and declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Andean border war.

34.   Peru claims to have captured the last Ecuadorean stronghold in what it considers to be Peruvian territory and declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Andean border war.

35.   Police work, and executing justice in the courts, is just getting off the ground in Kandahar, the last stronghold of the Taliban before their downfall.

36.   Abdullah died in late November, one week before the Islamic militia fled their last stronghold under pressure from U.S. bombing and the approach of enemy Afghan forces.

37.   A warlord who controls fighters trying to lay siege to Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, also said he opposes forming an interim government in Germany.

38.   After nine weeks of siege, Afghan tribal leaders claim victory over al-Qaida guerrillas at their last stronghold in Afghanistan.

39.   After nine weeks of siege, Afghan tribal leaders claimed victory over al-Qaida guerrillas at their last stronghold in Afghanistan.

40.   According to the peace plan, police later this month are expected to enter the village of Slupcane, the last rebel stronghold in the Kumanovo area.