Tim Judah
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Some Taleban commanders are making a fortune out of donkey convoys supplying Northern Alliance-held territory.
Kabul has fallen. Northern Alliance troops have entered the city amid scenes of jubilation at the end of oppressive Taleban rule.
The battle for Kabul has begun. Thirty-seven days after the US bombing of Afghanistan began, the whole political, strategic and diplomatic map of the country has changed.
If Afghan parties, meeting next week for talks about the future of their country, fail to achieve a speedy political settlement there could be a return to the anarchy of the early Nineties.
Osama bin Laden's intelligence gathering operation appears to have helped him escape a US missle attack on an al-Qaeda base.
A US government survey in Macedonia reveals ever-worsening ethnic relations and the increased appeal of a Greater Albania among ethnic Albanians.
Now that the Dutch have owned up to their role in the Srebrenica massacre, surely it's time for the former Bosnian warring factions to take a good hard look at the atrocity and the events that preceded it.
Western analysts are divided over whether US interest in former Yugoslavia will wane following the appalling terrorist attack on America.
US government survey in Macedonia reveals that most Albanians are opposed to the ethnic division of the country
Many Albanians, it seems, are not motivated by the idea of a Greater Albania.