61.  Afghan opposition leader reported to have died.

62.  American military planners want the Afghan opposition, a loose coalition of fighters dominated by ethnic minority Tajiks and Uzbeks, to make significant gains ahead of winter.

63.  American military planners want the Afghan opposition, a loose coalition of fighters with ethnic and religious differences, to make significant gains ahead of winter.

64.  An official in the Afghan opposition on Saturday denied reports that the Taliban shot down one of its helicopters in northern Afghanistan.

65.  An unknown number of Afghan opposition fighters were also killed or wounded, said spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton at the Marine base in southern Afghanistan.

66.  An alliance of Afghan opposition forces holds the rest, in the north.

67.  As U.S. planes pounded the approaching Taliban, the Afghan opposition fighters rallied and repulsed a Taliban attack on their flank.

68.  Belgian authorities arrested an Algerian Wednesday following a series of raids on a suspected false passport ring believed linked to the assassination of Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood.

69.  Belgian authorities arrested an Algerian Wednesday following raids on a suspected false passport ring believed linked to the assassination of Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood.

70.  But Afghan opposition forces claim to be closing in on Mazar-e-Sharif, which the Taliban now control, and are anxious for U.S. help.