Taliban move closer to Afghan capital after taking Ghazni city - World
The Taliban have seized 10 provincial capitals in less than a week and have now encircled the biggest city in the north.
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The Taliban have seized 10 provincial capitals in less than a week and have now encircled the biggest city in the north.
Hundreds of Afghan forces surrendered Wednesday to the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, the military's most significant single collapse since the withdrawal of U.S. forces triggered a wave of territorial gains for the militants.
Insurgents now control some two-thirds of Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO finalize their withdrawal after a decades-long war there.
South Asia News: The city -- the 10th provincial capital fall to the insurgents in a week -- lies along the major Kabul-Kandahar highway, effectively serving as a gate
The Afghan government has now effectively lost most of northern and western Afghanistan.