FROM SAM KILEY IN KIGALI RWANDA is on the verge of war with Zaire after it sent commandos across the Ruzizi River into Bukavu. The Government said that it was close to ordering a larger retaliation...
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Soviet Union's nemesis turns his wrath against the mullahs
Michael Dynes reports from Jabal os-Siraj on the Tajik guerrilla chieftain who sees it as his God-given duty to rid his country's capital once again of an unwelcome occupying force KNEELING in the...
Triumphant Tutsi rebels threaten break-up of Zaire
FROM SAM KILEY IN GISENYI ON THE RWANDA-ZAIRE BORDER REBELS continued their rout of Zaire's Army yesterday, closing in on two provincial capitals and raising the spectre of a break-up of the vast...
Assault on Kabul defences opens with joint attack
General Masood directs tank fire on a Taleban position ten miles north of the Afghan capital. His aide said the main attack would start on Wednesday FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN KALAKAN THE long-awaited...
Beleaguered Kurds expect Saddam to fight guerrilla rivals
FROM MICHAEL THEODOULOU IN NICOSIA FEARS grew last night of another Iraqi thrust into the Kurdish "safe area" of northern Iraq when Massoud Barzani, the leader of a Kurdish faction under growing...
Taleban claims pact as wily warlord plays double game
FROM CHRISTOPHER THOMAS IN KABUL TANKS and anti-aircraft guns flying the flag of the northern fiefdom ruled by General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord, rumbled into positions 40 miles north of...
Taleban troops mass to attack road link
Christopher Thomasreports from the Salang Tunnel TALEBAN Islamic soldiers are massed at the mouth of the strategic Salang Tunnel in northern Afghanistan, waiting in high spirits for the order to...
Taleban offers capital glimpse of stability
BY LAWRENCE FREEDMAN ANY regime which publicly hangs the body of a former president and imposes stern Islamic law is likely to ring international alarm bells, yet the seizure of Kabul by Taleban is...
Kurds trapped at frontier scorn Saddam amnesty
FROM MICHAEL THEODOULOU IN NICOSIA TENS of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees were last night trapped on the mountainous border with Iran, too terrified to return home but equally daunted by the...
Tehran begs for help as Kurds flood to border
BY MICHAEL THEODOULOU IN NICOSIA AND OUR FOREIGN STAFF THOUSANDS of Kurds fled towards Iran yesterday as Iraq gloated that the victory of its Kurdish militia allies in the city of Sulaimaniya had...
Lebed puts death toll at 90,000 in separatist conflict
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW AS MANY as 90,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands injured during the 21-month separatist war in Chechenia, General Aleksandr Lebed, the Russian...
Chechen victor doubts if pact can survive
FROM ANTHONY LOYD IN GROZNY ASLAN MASKHADOV, commander of the Chechen guerrilla army and the man most responsible for the Russians' battlefield humiliations, smiles just once as he marks the latest...
Yeltsin is key to Chechen pact
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW RUSSIA'S national security chief, General Aleksandr Lebed, began a long and complex mission yesterday to persuade his masters in Moscow to approve his peace plan for...
Lebed's Kremlin foes try to block Chechenia peace
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW RUSSIA'S national security adviser, General Aleksandr Lebed, cut short his peace mission to Grozny yesterday to face what is likely to be the toughest part of his...
Thousands flee Grozny before Russians attack
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW THOUSANDS of desperate refugees flooded out of Grozny, the Chechen capital, yesterday in an attempt to escape the Russian military, which has vowed to launch a huge...
Lebed accuses rivals of forging Yeltsin orders
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW RUSSIA'S leadership was plunged into chaos last night, after General Aleksandr Lebed, the country's security chief, charged Kremlin hardliners with forging President...
More die as Kurds clash in safe haven
BY MICHAEL THEODOULOU HEAVY fighting has broken out between the two main Kurdish factions in the Western-protected enclave in northern Iraq, causing many casualties and threatening to bury a...
Ethiopian gunships shell Muslim bases in Somalia
FROM SAM KILEY IN NAIROBI ETHIOPIAN forces pounded Muslim fundamentalist militia in northern Somalia with helicopter gunships, tanks and artillery over the weekend and vowed to continue its attacks...
Russians suffer heavy losses in Grozny battle
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW RUSSIAN army units yesterday clawed their way back into battle-scarred Grozny, but came under sustained attack from Chechen rebels. On the third day of the guerrilla...
Russians humbled as Chechen rebels storm into Grozny
FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN MOSCOW CHECHEN rebel fighters were poised to capture the centre of Grozny, the besieged Chechen capital, last night. Russian troops were cut off by guerrillas or driven out of...