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KABUL (Reuter) - Fresh land and air assaults on Afghanistan's Taleban appear to have failed to significantly dent the purist Islamic militia's positions in Kabul and on the front to the north, witnesses said Monday. Airport sources said warplanes belonging to…

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Forces opposed to the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban militia that controls most of Afghanistan paused Monday after failing to dent the front lines of the movement or to damage its main air base. Taleban fighters near the…

Dear Friends, The second shipment of 924 metric tons of wheat flour has arrived safely in Nampo. World Food Program have been notified and will arrange the receipt and distribution of the food. As previously advised to the network, an ACT…

General Masood directs tank fire on a Taleban position ten miles north of the Afghan capital. His aide said the main attack would start on Wednesday FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN KALAKAN THE long-awaited assault on Taleban positions north of Kabul began…

DATE=10/27/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205186 TITLE=AFGHAN BOMBING (L) BYLINE=TIM JOHNSTON DATELINE=KABUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: FOUR AIR RAIDS WERE LAUNCHED AGAINST THE AFGHAN CAPITAL, KABUL, DURING THE WEEKEND, WITH BOMBS HITTING A CITY PARK AND THE AIRPORT. AS TIM JOHNSTON REPORTS FROM KABUL, DESPITE EXTENSIVE MATERIAL DAMAGE, THERE…

DATE=10/27/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205189 TITLE=TALEBAN / STATEMENT (L) BYLINE=TIM JOHNSTON DATELINE=KABUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, THE TALEBAN SAYS THEY HAVE CAPTURED ANOTHER PROVINCE IN THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY FROM THE ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN FACTION LEADER GENERAL ABDUL RASHID DOSTAM. AS TIM JOHNSTON REPORTS…

KABUL (Reuter) - A warplane dropped at least one bomb on Kabul Saturday in the first night raid on the Afghan capital since the Taleban takeover a month ago, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who launched the raid.…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Iraq D) Afghanistan From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0437 1. CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR FLOOD AND STORM CONTROL (CCFSC) OF THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT REPORTED THAT THE FLOOD WATER LEVELS DOWNSTREAM OF THE MEKONG RIVER HAVE BEEN RECEDING GRADUALLY, BUT THAT FROM 24 TO 30 OCTOBER, DUE…

(Urges process of negotiation and reconciliation) (800) By David Pitts USIA Staff Writer Washington -- The United States supports "a process of negotiation," among the warring parties in Afghanistan, Lee Coldren, the State Department's director of the office on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh,…