A Northern Alliance fighter runs for cover after firing a mortar during sporadic exchange of small arms fire and mortars in the trenches on the front line of the Khalazaiy area some 25 km north-west of Kabul
on October 30, 2001. US air raids on the Afghan capital Kabul, now in their fourth week, paused through the night but persisted on the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, witnesses and reports from Kandahar said.
— REUTERS
