Kabul:
The Taliban claimed Friday to have captured Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-biggest city, which would leave just the capital and pockets of other territory in the government’s hands.
“Kandahar is completely conquered. The Mujahideen reached Martyrs’ Square in the city,” a Taliban spokesman tweeted on an officially recognised account — a claim backed by a resident, who told AFP government forces appeared to have withdrawn en masse to a military facility outdoors the city
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