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| Afghanistan |
| Northern Alliance claims progress |
| 2001-09-23 |
The Northern Alliance said on Saturday that its forces had made progress against the Taliban, killing 50 of the ruling militia's soldiers in fighting in northern Afghanistan. The Alliance made its claim of military victories as two of its senior leaders arrived in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, for talks with Tajik officials. "On the front line today we continued our operations in two provinces, in the south of Bakhr province and in the south of Samangan province," Soleh Muhammad Registani, the opposition's Moscow-based military attache who is acting as a spokesman, said. "We have made 15kms of progress in the last three days. Fifty Taliban have been killed and more than 300 have joined the Northern Alliance side as the Northern Alliance overran their lines," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |