...This is absolutely new," Tarzi said. "No other Islamic country comes close." ------ EDITOR'S NOTE -- Kathy Gannon, AP's Islamabad bureau chief, reports regularly from Afghanistan. Richard N. Ostling is an AP religion writer...

...residents to leave or risk being caught in fighting, according to villagers who talked to an Associated Press reporter, Kathy Gannon. The fighters brought hundreds of bags of flour and sugar, weapons such as mortars and cannons, and some wives and...