Scores killed in fresh Kunduz fighting

Anti-Taliban forces are reported to have stamped out Taliban resistance in Kunduz after a two-week siege.

Northern Alliance troops have been seen beating captured Taliban fighters in the streets and shooting wounded Taliban prisoners.

The opposition forces have reported scores of Taliban dead.

Frightened members of the city's Tajik minority have begun venturing back out onto city streets, liberated from what some of them saw as five years of oppressive Taliban rule.

Despite an alliance claim late on Sunday to have captured the city - the last northern stronghold of the Taliban - fierce firefights broke out when the main contingent of opposition forces pushed into Kunduz at dawn on Monday.

Taliban forces were waiting, ambushing the arriving soldiers with rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades. But the Taliban came out the worse.

Afghan Taliban and a hard core of allied foreign Islamic militia had held off northern-based opposition alliance forces at Kunduz for two weeks.

An estimated 3,000 Arabs, Pakistanis, Chechens and other foreigners resisted surrender of the city, fearing the Northern Alliance would single them out for killing.

A group of Arab fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden broke out and fled to nearby Chardara, just west of Kunduz. They were pinned down by Monday with nowhere to run.

Under the surrender agreement worked out during the siege, Afghan Taliban fighters are to receive amnesty while foreigners, mostly Chechens, Arabs and Pakistanis loyal to bin Laden, are to be imprisoned and tried.