51.   Kabul has been subjected to repeated rocket barrages over the past few days.

52.   Kabul residents said the capital was calm Tuesday, with no reported rocket barrages from the Taliban.

53.   Local residents meanwhile continued to flee the area between Butkhak and eastern Kabul in a bid to escape the fighting in which rocket barrages hit their homes.

54.   Multiple rocket barrages and tank rounds slammed into Bamut overnight while Orekhovo was hit by tank fire and the sides exchanged machinegun fire.

55.   Russian multiple rocket barrages, artillery and aerial bombing poured on the separatist stronghold of Serzhen Yurt, to the southwest of Bachi Yurt.

56.   Rocket barrages have once again become an almost daily occurrence in Kabul since the Islamic fighters arrived on the outskirts of the city in mid-October.

57.   Ten civilians were wounded, three of them seriously, in nightime rocket barrages on two residential areas of Kabul, witnesses and hospital staff said Sunday.

58.   The assault began with a deafening artillery and rocket barrage from several directions early in the day.

59.   The assault began with a fierce artillery and rocket barrage from several directions early in the day.

60.   The city, which has been under siege for two days, suffered its most sustained artillery and rocket barrage Friday in six weeks of fighting.