41.  Iran is expected to ask for Turkish support for the release of Iranian citizens detained when the Taliban forces captured a northern Afghan city this month, Anatolia said.

42.  Initial European support came as anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky over Kabul and the first allied strikes hit targets there and in other Afghan cities Sunday night.

43.  Jalalabad, a major eastern Afghan city, is also emptying out.

44.  Kandahar was the birthplace of the radical Taliban movement and was the last major Afghan city to fall to U.S.-backed Afghan forces last year.

45.  Kvashnin said that according to his information, bin Laden is now hiding in the mountains around Kandahar, the southern Afghan city where the Taliban headquarters is located.

46.  Meanwhile in Herat the newly established Taliban administration declared a three-day holiday, according to United Nations workers in that western Afghan city.

47.  More than three years after the Taliban banned all female education, schools for girls in this northern Afghan city reopened Saturday to an almost euphoric reception.

48.  Nasrin Arbabzadeh, head of the Afghan athletes delegation, said she spent several months visiting Afghan cities looking for women to participate in the games.

49.  One side is a political map, showing Afghan cities and towns, rivers, mountains, passes and airports, as well as other details.

50.  Shipments into Afghanistan were stopped after a U.S.-led coalition against terrorism began striking Afghan cities on Sunday night.