Taliban seizes control of Herat, third largest Afghan city ...Kuwait

The Taliban took over Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city, on Thursday, and also seized another key district capital just 95 miles (150 kilometres) from Kabul. A senior security source from Herat told AFP that government forces and administration officials had retreated to an army barracks outside the city. "We had to leave the city in order to prevent further destruction," he said. A Taliban spokesman, however, tweeted that "soldiers laid down their arms and joined the Mujahideen". An AFP correspondent had earlier filmed the Taliban flag flying over the police headquarters in Herat, while the insurgents tweeted "the enemy fled... Dozens of military vehicles, wea

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