Taliban, Opposition Battle for Key City
From Times Wire Reports
Taliban warplanes bombed the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif as fighting erupted around the opposition stronghold and de facto capital for a second day, aid workers said. The Taliban army, which controls the southern two-thirds of the country and aspires to turn Afghanistan into a strict Islamic state, is battling a northern-based opposition coalition on at least four different fronts. Artillery guns fired several shells a minute around Mazar-i-Sharif, the aid workers said.
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