Rebels finally topple Kunduz [AP photo] BANGI, Afghanistan -- The Northern Alliance claimed to have seized the Taliban's last northern stronghold Sunday after a two-week siege.

U.S. Marines, tribal fighters close in on Taliban home base
QUETTA, Pakistan -- Anti-Taliban tribal fighters pushed to within five miles of the Taliban home base of Kandahar on Monday, a tribal leader said, hours after the first wave of U.S. Marines landed in southern Afghanistan.

Alliance leaders vie for spoils of Kunduz
BANGI, Afghanistan -- Sunday's dash for Kunduz looked like a race for the spoils from the eastern front, with opposition generals vying for claims to the last northern Taliban stronghold -- and its cache of prized Taliban pickup trucks and tanks.

America strikes notebook
Ashcroft to testify at Senate panel

Businesses see opportunity in new Afghanistan
Where others see desperate refugees and bombed-out roads and bridges, Islamudin Khorami sees factory jobs blossoming from Afghanistan's postwar ruins.

Pashtuns seize key supply route
QUETTA, Pakistan -- Armed Pashtun tribesmen, aided by U.S. airstrikes, have seized territory in southern Afghanistan for the first time and cut off a key supply route between the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and Pakistan.

Taliban prisoners trigger gun battle
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Captured Taliban soldiers overpowered their guards Sunday at a Northern Alliance prison near the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, triggering a fierce gun battle that killed hundreds and was put down only after U.S. air and ground forces were called in, witnesses say.

Rabbani willing to give up power in new regime
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan president whose party is effectively running Kabul, said Sunday that he was prepared to hand over power as soon as the leading Afghan factions agree on an interim government.