11.  Alliance leaders offered few details on the capture of Herat, a regional capital near the border with Iran.

12.  But many residents of the regional capital interviewed here and along the road spoke of how the city has been transformed since the fighting on Saturday.

13.  Conducted at dawn in the Johkang Temple in the regional capital of Lhasa, the ceremony was rebroadcast on Chinese state television.

14.  Continuing their advance, Zairian rebels marched on Friday into a regional capital in an area rich in minerals after government troops fled.

15.  From their new stronghold in the regional capital, the Iraqi-backed Kurds last week attacked their Iranian-supported rivals.

16.  He, leaping at the chance to return to forbidden territory, sent his tanks to dislodge the first faction from Arbil, the regional capital.

17.  Hundreds of soldiers from a military base near this regional capital set up a temporary encampment on the wooded hillside of a national park on the outskirts.

18.  In Chechnya, the pace of the war picked up again, with fighting reported in several villages near Grozny, the regional capital.

19.  In mid-December, the mayors of small towns and villages were called to emergency meetings in regional capitals to discuss the death toll.

20.  International aid workers were evacuated from here to the regional capital of Kisangani on Friday because of the rising tensions.