51.   Earlier, Taliban officials reported no fighting around Mazar-e-Sharif.

52.   Ethnic Albanian sources claimed fierce fighting around Djakovica and the strategic western village of Junik, near the Albanian border, where the KLA managed to hold its positions.

53.   Ethnic Albanian sources reported fierce fighting around Djakovica and the strategic village of Junik, where the KLA managed to hold its positions.

54.   EU spokesman Gunnar Wiegand said the aid would go toward new relief efforts aimed at those fleeing the fighting around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

55.   Ethnic Albanian sources said there was fierce fighting around Djakovica and the strategic village of Junik, where the KLA managed to hold its positions.

56.   EU spokesman Gunnar Wiegand said the new aid would go toward new relief efforts aimed at those fleeing the fighting around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

57.   First reports of new fighting around Treskavica were late Sunday, and the fighting continued Tuesday.

58.   First reports of new fighting around Treskavica were late Sunday, and the fighting continued Monday.

59.   Ghafoori said there was heavy fighting around the city but the Taliban did not gain any ground.

60.   He said there is still sporadic fighting around Mazar-e-Sharif, where northern alliance rebels claimed to have quelled an uprising by Taliban prisoners.