Fall of military base and battle for Ghazni exposes failures in Afghan military strategy
(WorldNews Asia)

Two stinging Taliban offensives in recent days have exposed the failures of the government to counter a bloody insurgency just four years after Nato ground troops pulled out and give the militant group a strong position in ongoing peace talks. Taliban fighters overran an army base in northern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, killing at least 17 soldiers with dozens feared captured in a stinging blow to security forces already struggling to push insurgents from the eastern city of Ghazni. Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Taliban and regional expert, said the militants had no desire to hold the strategically important city of Ghazni, less than 150 kilometres from Kabul, and simply wanted to show it...