The Taliban captures the eastern Logar Province, seizes Sharana, the provincial capital of the eastern Paktika Province, and enters the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan and the capital of the northern Balkh Province, as heavy fighting is reported amid a rapid advance of the group towards the capital Kabul. The city had been visited on Wednesday by President Ashraf Ghani.
The Taliban captures the eastern Logar Province, seizes Sharana, the capital of the eastern Paktika Province, and Afghanistan's fourthlargest city, Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern Balkh Province, as heavy fighting is reported amid a rapid advance of the group towards the capital Kabul. Mazar-i-Sharif had been visited on Wednesday by President Ashraf Ghani.
The Taliban captures the eastern Logar Province, seizes seven more provincialcapitals(Gardez,Sharana,Asadabad,Maymana, Mihtarlam,Niliand Afghanistan's fourth largest city, Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern Balkh Province), as heavy fighting is reported amid a rapid advance of the group towards the capital Kabul. Mazar-i-Sharif had been visited on Wednesday by President Ashraf Ghani.
The Taliban captures the eastern Logar Province andseizes seven more provincial capitals, Gardez, Sharana, Asadabad, Maymana, Mihtarlam, Nili and Mazar-i-Sharif, as heavy fighting is reported amid a rapid advance of the group towards the capital Kabul. Mazar-i-Sharif had been visited on Wednesday by President Ashraf Ghani.
