Taliban Attack on Ghazni City Causes 262 Civilian Casualties (2018)
Document- Date
- ۲۴ مرداد ۱۳۹۷
- Dates of Incident
- ۱۹ مرداد ۱۳۹۷ ~ ۲۴ مرداد ۱۳۹۷
- Year of Incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Ghazni City
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.553649501162
Longitude: 68.4306428259085
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Ghazni City
- Town Village
- Ghazni City, Ghazni province
- Types of Incident
- Abduction
- Clash
- Complex attack
- Ground attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Enforced disappearance
- Unknown: Extermination
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
From August 10-15, 2018, the Taliban launched sustained attacks against Afghan Security Forces in Ghazni City. During the six-day battle, UNAMA verified 262 civilian casualties—79 killed and 183 injured—resulting from ground fighting and aerial operations. In addition to the broader civilian casualties, the Taliban conducted targeted killings including a public prosecutor and kidnapped an electoral candidate who was later found dead. This multi-day assault on the provincial capital resulted in one of the highest civilian casualty tolls from a single Taliban operation.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 262
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