Afghan warlords clash

AFGHAN government troops intervened in the country’s latest outbreak of deadly fighting between warlords, flying from the capital Kabul to the far west, on US and NATO planes, to retake an air base contested in the violence.

The US-trained Afghan National Army’s move in the far western province of Herat was President Hamid Karzai’s latest attempt to quell local conflicts in the large areas still controlled by warlords.