1. But reports later in the day indicated Croat forces had continued their advance, putting troops close to a key Serb supply road. 2. Opposition officials said anti-Taliban fighters advancing on the city faced stiff resistance from reinforced Taliban, but still managed to cut a key supply road. 3. Plumes of smoke rose up from the barren terrain, and state TV said the jets bombed anti-aircraft guns, caves used as hideouts and a supply road. 4. Albanian Defense Minister Shaqir Vukaj said the troops will secure main supply roads, ports and the Tirana airport, but were not expected to accompany convoys. 5. As battles raged Thursday for supply roads around Sarajevo, Bosnian Serbs said they would allow the United Nations to bring urgently needed food into the besieged capital. 6. Bosnian Serb military sources claimed Tuesday that government troops had failed in their attempt to take a key supply road south of Sarajevo. 7. Bosnian Serb military sources claimed Tuesday government troops had failed in their attempt to take a key supply road south of Sarajevo. 8. Coward suggested earlier that the Serb forces might have wanted at first only to secure a supply road near the Serbian border. 9. Earlier, peacekeepers on Mount Igman, overlooking Sarajevo, exchanged heavy weapons fire with Serbs to force them to stop shooting at a government-held supply road. 10. French peacekeepers fired smoke grenades at Bosnian Serb forces today in retaliation for their targeting the main supply road to the city. |