1.   But along with Taylor came five other warring factional leaders and their rebels.

2.   A senior State Department official travelled to Afghanistan Sunday for several days of talks with warring factional leaders, said a United States Embassy spokesman in Pakistan.

3.   After nearly two years of crisscrossing Afghanistan to meet warring factional leaders, the U.N. special envoy is resigning without a peace agreement, his assistant said Sunday.

4.   Assistant Security of State for South Asian Affairs Robin Raphel arrived in the Pakistani capital Islamabad after two days in Afghanistan where she met with warring factional leaders.

5.   But his bid to bring the warring leaders together in Moscow failed last month when only Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic showed up.

6.   Congolese President Laurent Kabila was among other warring leaders attending the summit.

7.   During an overnight trip to Afghanistan, Raphel met with warring factional leaders in the capital Kabul and the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

8.   In many mosques in different parts of Mogadishu, Muslim clerics appealed to warring leaders to end the bloodshed.

9.   Searches were also conducted at the homes of other major warring leaders, including Charles Taylor and Roosevelt Johnson, but there were no illegal arms found.

10.   The latest proposal calls for the resignation of President Burhanuddin Rabbani and the creation of an interim ruling council made up of various warring factional leaders.