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Ghazni (Dari: غزنی, Pashto: غزني), historically known as Ghaznayn (غزنين) or Ghazna (غزنه), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana (Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), [2] is a city in southeastern Afghanistan [3] with a population of around 190,000 people. [1]
Ghazni, city which sits along the highway between Kabul and Kandahar in east-central Afghanistan. It was the capital of the Ghaznavid empire in the 11th and early 12th centuries before falling to the Ghurids and later to the Mongols and to the Mughals. It is Afghanistan’s only remaining walled town.
Ghazni (Dari: غزنی; Pashto: غزني) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. [3] The province contains 19 districts , encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, [ 4 ] making it the 5th most populous province.
A wall damaged by a Taliban mortar at a small makeshift outpost in Ghazni; two Afghan soldiers were injured.
Taking the strategically important Ghazni increases the likelihood the Taliban could take the capital Kabul. There is also heavy fighting in the second largest city, Kandahar.
Ghazni is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southeastern part of the country. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.1 million people. The city of Ghazni serves as the capital.
During the First Anglo-Afghan War, the city was captured by British forces on 23 July 1839 in the Battle of Ghazni. The Civil war in Afghanistan and the continued conflict between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance during the 1990s put the relics of Ghazni in jeopardy.
Ghazni is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province.
The city of Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city and a major urban center in western Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Thursday evening local time, with the group taking control of the ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban captured a provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken over a weeklong blitz across Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO...