There are conflicting claims of further clashes in northern Afghanistan between Taleban forces and fighters of the anti-Taleban alliance.

A leading member of the alliance, Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq, told the BBC that its forces had captured territory from the Taleban in the northern provinces of Faryab and Jouzjan.

He said one-hundred-and-fifty Taleban fighters had been killed and almost two-hundred captured.

But the Taleban minister of information, Mullah Ameer Khan Muttaqi, told the BBC that the report was completely untrue.