1.   The town fell into decline after the factory closed down.

2.   In this way, all the major towns fell peacefully into mujaheddin hands, although fighting, often ethnically rooted, did break out in a number of areas.

3.   A second, shadowy rebel movement was stirring up there, and towns were falling in its path.

4.   After the town fell to Northern Alliance forces, residents flouted rules imposed by the Taliban.

5.   After the town fell, he announced that he had made a deal with the Bosnian Serb commander, Ratko Mladic, for Red Cross access to prisoners.

6.   He was last seen in Kunduz last week before the town fell to the Northern Alliance, but unlike other Taliban leaders eluded capture, according to alliance commanders.

7.   In the mountains around Malisevo, ethnic Albanians who fled before the town fell can see the smoke from their burning homes.

8.   U.S. officials say they had no warning the town would fall and no way to save its people.

9.   Pleas by local authorities to the refugees to proceed to other towns were going unheeded by people panicked that those towns also would fall.

10.   According to Mohammed Bahrami, an opposition spokesman, the town fell with only light resistance.