| Tuesday, November 13, 2001, updated at 14:52(GMT+8) |
Kandahar Airport Falls to Opposition: Tribal Chief |
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The strategic airport outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, powerbase of the fundamentalist Taliban, fell to opposition forces on Monday, tribal leaders said.
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The strategic airport outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, powerbase of the fundamentalist Taliban, fell to opposition forces on Monday, tribal leaders said.
"It's confirmed from tribal leaders," Mohammad Yusaf Pashtun, spokesman for former mujahideen governor of Kandahar, Gul Agha, told Reuters in this southwestern Pakistani city just across the border from Afghanistan.
"They don't know who took it," he said.
"Kandahar airport has fallen in the hands of the Northern Alliance," Qatar's al-Jazeera television said in an unsourced report and without further details.
The report came moments after the satellite television station's correspondent in Kandahar, Youssef al-Shouli, said in a live interview that he could hear small arms fire close to the city.
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