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As government forces rallied their defences, fighting raged for more than two weeks as the militants came within less than two miles of the provincial capital, Kunduz city.
Even in Benghazi, where fighting raged for weeks before NATO intervened to turn the tide against loyalists, casualties may not have been much higher than in Tripoli.
He and his militia have broken several truces, and fighting raged for much of the summer in cities across the south and in Sadr City.
PAGE A6 FIGHTING RAGES IN PAKISTAN Heavy fighting raged for a third day in Pakistan's northwest as civilians flooded from the area.
REBELS -- The Taliban militia and the Afghan opposition made conflicting claims as fighting raged for the third day in Takhar, a northeastern province close to the border with Tajikistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Heavy fighting raged for a third day in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday as civilians flooded from the area and the Pakistani military reported some gains in pushing back Taliban insurgents.
Residents living about a half mile away in the center of town said the explosions broke windows in their street and that they could hear fighting raging for an hour after that.
While fighting raged today for control of one major Taliban redoubt at Kunduz in the north, and skirmishes continued around Kandahar in the south, with heavy airstrikes in both areas, senior Bush administration officials emphasized that the primary goal is to kill or capture Mr. bin Laden and leaders of his terrorist network.
As fighting raged in Afghanistan, for instance, in the skies above it was mostly business as usual for the world's airlines.Sometimes a no-fly zone is declared, as in the case of Libya (or previously in Iraq, for a time).
While fighting raged all around it for the past fortnight in the Plateau district more than 2,400 people sheltered inside.
In Syria, fighting raged between rebels and the military for control of a Damascus suburb after a suicide bomber attack on a government checkpoint that an opposition monitoring group said killed at least 16 soldiers.
