The United States resumed on Tuesday`s air strikes, targeting military installations in the northern Afghanistan city of Herat, capital Kabul and the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, reports said. CNN quoting sources said bombs were falling all over Herat, and the Taliban was responding with anti-aircraft fire.
Footage showed the outskirts of northwest Kabul being bombed by US and British jets. There were reports that the Taliban seemed to retaliating with `thick` anti-aircraft fire.
US planes were carrying out attacks in Kandahar, bombing the airport and the air bases nearby. This is the third straight night of attacks following the first daylight assaults on Tuesday morning. Television reports also indicated that the Northern Alliance was shelling Taliban positions in and around Kabul, in apparent coordination with the US-led strikes.
Northern Alliance Foreign Minster Dr Abdullah Abdullah also claimed to have cut off Taliban main supply route to Kabul.
Earlier, in a pre-dawn Tuesday attack, US fighter jets had Kabul and the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, keeping up the wave of strikes, which began on Monday night. Bureau Report