Jet bombs Afghan capital

KABUL - Anti-Taliban forces stepped up the pressure on militia-held Kabul yesterday, killing three people in a daylight jet raid…

KABUL - Anti-Taliban forces stepped up the pressure on militia-held Kabul yesterday, killing three people in a daylight jet raid and making further advances towards the capital, prompting some foreign aid workers to draw up evacuation plans. A lone opposition jet swooped low over the city centre in the early afternoon, dropping one bomb close to the presidential palace and a

Taliban militia base. - (AFP)

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