ATTACKING THE TALIBAN

A man sells his bread under a tent in the market in the northeastern Afghan city of Khwaja Bahaulldin under control of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. Afghan opposition forces said that another 40 Taliban “commanders” and some 800 soldiers had surrendered in the northeast and fighting was underway in the Samangan province.

An Afghan opposition fighter shells Taliban positions at the province of Kapiso, some 28 miles from Kabul on October 11. U.S.-led forces on Thursday launched their first afternoon raid on Kabul, extendin