Afghanistan: Hundreds of Taliban fighters stormed Ghazni province, 100 killed
Over 700 Taliban fighters are attacking Afghan military posts with the aim of taking and holding ground.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province southwest of the capital and are on the verge of capturing it after killing dozens of people and beheading some in days of fighting, officials said on Friday.
The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province’s western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of the area. An army unit reported that fighting was raging late on Friday afternoon, another provincial official said.
“If there is no urgent help from the central government, the district will collapse,” Safi said earlier.