US Army General John Nicholson, commander of Resolute Support forces and US forces in Afghanistan, walking with Afghan officials during an official visit to Farah province, Afghanistan on Sunday — Reuters FARAH, May 20 (Reuters): Taliban fighters closed in on another district in Afghanistan on Sunday as officials sought to reassure an increasingly angry public that security would improve.
On Sunday, the insurgents were besieging the governor's compound in Ajrestan district in Ghazni, south of the capital Kabul, although officials said reinforcements had arrived and were relieving police defending the town.
The fighting in Ghazni, which has long had a heavy Taliban presence, follows several days of fighting in Farah province, on the other side of Afghanistan on the border with Iran where the insurgents came close to overrunning the provincial capital. General John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan visited Farah on Saturday with the ministers of the interior and Defence and the head of the NDS intelligence service.
Meanwhile, as many as 63 militants loyal to the Taliban outfit have been killed over the past 48 hours during counter-offensive operations by government forces in Afghanistan's northern province of Jauzjan, army spokesman Mohammad Hanif Rezai said Sunday.
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