Taliban Kill More Than 200 Afghan Defenders on 4 Fronts: ‘a Catastrophe’

FILE — A peace march in Ghazni, a city of strategic import in southeastern Afghanistan, June 10, 2018. Though the Afghan government declared on Aug. 11 that Ghazni was in no danger of falling to the Taliban, a New York Times reporter who entered the city that morning found insurgents confidently in control at every intersection. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)