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...Afghanistan's Taliban government appeared to suffer a major setback when fighting broke out over the key town of Bamiyan. Opposition groups claimed to have captured the town. The latest fighting comes as the Taliban face tough new U.N. sanctions over their refusal to hand over the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to face charges related to the blowing up of U.S. embassies in 1998. U.N. officials have warned of a major disaster if emergency aid is not immediately made available to an estimated 600,000 Afghans who have been displaced by the war and are enduring in makeshift border...
Just 60 miles from Kabul, in fact, in the Ghorband Valley leading to the city of Bamiyan (pop. 47,000), seesaw battles between Soviet troops and bands of insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar...