
Taliban Seize Strategic Afghan City of Ghazni
Voice of America
ISLAMABAD - Taliban insurgents Thursday captured Afghanistan’s strategically important southeastern city of Ghazni, bringing them a step closer to the national capital, Kabul. آقای لغمانی والی با طالبان به تفاهم و معامله غزنی را از راه زمین به مقصد کابل ترک کردند و از مدت های به این طرف صدا کردم که فعالیت های مشکوک دارد. pic.twitter.com/CtOKiZgsPP
Afghan government security forces have struggled to contain stunning weeklong insurgent advances, allowing the Taliban to seize control of at least 10 out of the embattled country’s 34 provincial capitals and threaten others. Ghazni, the capital of the province of the same name, sits on the major Kabul-Kandahar highway. It links the national capital to southern provinces, traditional Taliban strongholds. Governor ‘surrendered’
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