41.   However, some Afghan fighters remained behind and fired on alliance troops who entered the city Monday following the two-week siege.

42.   However, some Afghan fighters remained behind and fired on alliance troops who entered the city Monday after the siege.

43.   However, there have been reports that northern alliance troops singled out non-Afghan fighters for death.

44.   Hundreds of northern alliance troops hunted down lingering Taliban and foreigners who came to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida.

45.   However, some Afghan fighters remained behind and fired on alliance troops who entered the city Monday after the two-week siege.

46.   In newly captured Kunduz, wary northern alliance troops were going house-to-house to flush out Taliban stragglers, triggering an occasional firefight.

47.   In the interim, Russia shifted to the NATO position on the key issue of putting alliance peacekeeping troops into Kosovo.

48.   Instead, the gunmen identified themselves as northern alliance troops.

49.   It also insists on sending in a peacekeeping force which includes alliance troops.

50.   It was a historic step for a former Warsaw Pact member, the first to let Western alliance troops be based on its soil.