Kabul - The Taliban militia captured the key opposition base of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan yesterday, officials and independent sources told AFP. A Taliban official said the purist Muslim movement was busy consolidating positions inside the native base of opposition warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam, threatening the only Afghan city out of their hands.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said they had used a pre-planned flight to pull out foreigners from the dusty anti-Taliban capital of Mazar-i-Sharif.
