A renegade guerrilla faction battled militiamen supporting the interim Islamic government on the southern edge of Kabul, Afghanistan, overnight, breaking a 3-week-old truce, witnesses said Tuesday.

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Many of the rockets and mortar shells fired in the clash fell on a village in a milewide strip separating the forces of the fundamentalist Hezb-e-Islami faction of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum. One small boy was cut by shrapnel, witnesses reported.Each side blamed the other for the fighting.

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