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...foreigners. The roundups could heighten tensions between Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, and the northern alliance, which is dominated by ethnic Tajiks and which controls the interior and other key ministries. Hekmatyar's following...
...loosely organized group called the Northern Alliance. On Sept. 9, Massoud, 48...territory controlled by the Northern Alliance. While the United States has...nations in recent months, the Northern Alliance has been heavily supported by...
...the Taliban is suddenly scared. It is afraid of U.S. bomb strikes, afraid of an attack on Kabul by opposition Northern Alliance forces and afraid of a popular uprising in support of its enemies. Kabul is a city on the brink, according to accounts...
...Osama bin Laden was alive and safe. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said the opposition northern alliance had failed to make advances against Taliban forces despite the U.S.-led strikes, which began Sunday night...
...people with them, the official said. He also said it is likely that some Taliban commanders have defected to the northern alliance of opposition groups now fighting the radical Islamic militia, which controls most of Afghanistan. The official...
...north of Kabul, to prevent the Northern Alliance alone from taking the capital...would be appropriate because the Northern Alliance has too narrow a base of support...others. But leaders of the Northern Alliance, in Washington and Afghanistan...
...Laden and his al-Qaida terror network. It was the clearest statement yet of Bush's intention to rely on the northern alliance of opposition troops for dangerous ground operations. In Shanghai, Bush, who has talked to Jiang at least twice...
...said U.S. forces have also been in anti-Taliban northern alliance territory of Afghanistan for more than one week...Addressing Pakistani concerns about the anti-Taliban northern alliance rebels, Rice said the administration wanted to make...
...Taliban also reported overnight attacks at Herat and in the provinces of Balkh and Samagan, where the opposition northern alliance has been fighting the Taliban to open the road to Mazar-e-Sharif. At Afghanistan's other key front, about...
...anti-aircraft guns, and there were sporadic exchanges of fire between the Islamic militia and forces of the opposition northern alliance. Shirin said that the front line had been fairly quiet for much of the day. Skies over Kabul, about 30 miles to...