Taliban capture major cities of Herat, Kandahar and Lashkar Gah theuknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theuknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Taliban took over Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city, on Thursday and seized another district capital just 150 kilometres (95 miles) from Kabul. According to information obtained by FRANCE 2…
President Ashraf Ghani is trying to rally a counteroffensive relying on his country's special forces, the militias of warlords and American airpower ahead of the US and NATO withdrawal at the end of the month.
Taliban fighters captured another provincial capital. The militants raised their white flags imprinted with an Islamic proclamation of faith over the city of Ghazni, just 80 miles southwest of Kabul.