Word: mazar
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...settled into a tense standoff between Alliance and Taliban forces. Inside Kunduz were some 6,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda troops, many of them Arab, Chechen or Pakistani holy warriors with no place in this world left to go. They had retreated into Kunduz after being routed at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan. Now they were surrounded by an estimated 10,000 Alliance men who had cut off all roads out of the city, and they were willing...
...Kunduz, the last government garrison in the north, and in Kandahar. Last week the Taliban was on the verge of quitting both cities, but defiant Taliban cadres made their stands. In the north, the estimated 6,000 Taliban troops who retreated to Kunduz from the decimated fronts at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan had their supply lines and escape routes cut off. They had two options: surrender to the Uzbek and Tajik rebels or face death. As Taliban soldiers squabbled over whether to negotiate or fight?the Arabs arguing for the latter?U.S. B-52s on Saturday pulverized them while...
...Across Afghanistan, people deserted the regime as soon as it started losing, exposing its shallow hold on them. "The Taliban showed they were good at enforcing beard lengths," says a Western diplomat, "and that's about it." The first, pivotal defeat of the Taliban, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was greased by local Pashtun fed up with taking orders from "these village idiots from the south," as a foreign aid worker put it. Those fighters cut a secret deal with Alliance commander Rashid Dostum to allow Dostum's cavalry to pour through the Taliban front line. After...
UPDATE: U.S. forces have successfully rescued one American trapped inside a fort by rebelling Taliban prisoners in Mazar-i-Sharif, Northern Afghanistan. TIME's Alex Perry, who is on the scene, reported the details by satellite phone Monday morning local time. The American was apparently injured although it's unknown how badly. There was no information on the fate of a second American, believed to have been affiliated with the CIA, who was reportedly killed inside the fort by the Taliban...
...These are Taliban troops that surrendered yesterday from Kunduz? Yeah. That's right. The drove over toward Mazar, laid down their weapons and were taken by Dostum's people. They were taken in trucks to Kalai Jangi on the west of Mazar-i-Sharif...