Tag: Ghazni

Taliban fighters captured the city of Ghazni on Thursday, the ninth provincial capital they have seized in a week, as U.S. intelligence said Afghanistan's...

The old citadel known as Ghaznain Fort originally had 36 towers, but 14 of the towers had collapsed in recent years due to decades of war, heavy rain and neglect.

The assault began early on Friday when the Afghan Taliban attacked two adjacent checkpoints

GHAZNI: Taliban militants have launched an attack on an Afghan provincial capital and heavy fighting is under way as security forces try to beat...

GHAZNI, Afghanistan: Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a district government compound in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least seven people including the...

MULTAN: Ali Haider Gillani, son of ex-Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has been recovered from Afghanistan after a joint operation conducted by US-Afghan forces in Ghazni. He was in captivity of militants for three years, ARY News reported.

GHAZNI: At least 73 people were killed Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said, in one of the worst road accidents in the war-battered nation.

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban insurgents stormed the main prison in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni early Monday, killing police officers and freeing hundreds of inmates, officials said.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan: Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a district in an important Afghan province not far from the capital, killing dozens of people in five days, and officials said on Friday there were fears the area will fall to the insurgents.