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Taliban Kill More Than 200 Afghan Defenders on 4 Fronts: ‘a Catastrophe’
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan government forces lost more than 200 officers and soldiers in fighting over the past three days as Taliban insurgents launched sustained attacks on four different fronts.
- By Rod Nordland, Fahim Abed and Mujib Mashal
- The New York Times
The hardest-hit area was the southeastern city of Ghazni, where more than 100 police officers and soldiers had been killed by Sunday, a hospital official said, and the insurgents appeared to be in control of most of the…
Ninety miles west, in Ghazni Province, the Taliban seized control of the…