...control in Afghanistan. Reports indicated heavy U.S. bombardment of the city. "We entered into Kandahar," Bismillah Khan, the alliance's deputy defense minister, said in the capital, Kabul. Khan had no details of the situation in...

...gains in the first significant advance by the opposition on the front north of Kabul. A senior opposition spokesman, Bismillah Khan, said anti-Taliban forces pushed as far as Mir Bacha Kot, about 12 miles north of the capital, and were awaiting...

...Kandahar, and the reports of fighting could not be verified. The northern alliance's deputy defense minister, Bismillah Khan, said Thursday that anti-Taliban forces had reached the eastern outskirts of Kandahar and that "there is heavy...