"Ghazni City remains under Afghan government control, and the isolated and disparate Taliban forces remaining in the city do not pose a threat to its collapse as some have claimed," U.S. military ...

An Afghan soldier inspects a passenger at a checkpoint on the Ghazni-Kabul highway Aug. 14, 2018, after troops fought to repel a Taliban attack.

Minarets in Ghazni, Afghanistan, and the 12th-century palace of Mas’ud III excavated nearby, in about 1960. Credit... Josephine Powell, Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University.

My husband, Russ, is headed back to Afghanistan this fall. “The Taliban are probably sleeping in the same rooms we used to sleep in,” he noted as we discussed his upcoming deployment and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents and Afghan government forces battled for control of the key southeastern city of Ghazni on Friday, with both sides claiming victory at the end of the day ...

GHAZNI, Afghanistan — The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday as thousands watched the killing of two convicted men by their ...

An Afghan government spokesman says two separate highway crashes in the southeast have killed 50 people and injured 76. ... a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni province.

The executions began shortly before 1pm at a stadium in the Ali Lala area of Ghazni and at least 15 bullets were fired as thousands gathered to watch, according to the local officials.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday. A crowd of thousands, including an AP journalist, ...