Taliban issues notices of victory over US

Like soldiers throughout history, US troops regularly daubed their names on the walls of bases and fixed positions they occupied. However now the towering block is on public display -- being used to bolster the Taliban's narrative of toppling US-led forces after 20 years of fighting.
While, the governor's compound of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a new historical exhibit is unveiled before a rapt audience of Taliban fighters -- sections of blast walls from a former US military base, one concrete slab is inscribed with the names and regiments of US troops who served in the province during America's longest war.
In the governor's compound of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a new historical exhibit is unveiled before a rapt audience of Taliban fighters -- sections of blast walls from a former US military base. One concrete slab is inscribed with the names and regiments of US troops who served in the province during America's longest war.
Standing at the blast walls, Mullah Habibullah Mujahid boasted that the 20 or so names inscribed included "important commanders and generals" killed in combat. The ranks listed were all juniors reportedly -- and none of the names feature on databases of Americans killed in the war.