Taliban takes Kandahar as another Afghan provincial capital falls

A Taliban flag flies at a square in the city of Ghazni (Gulabuddin Amiri/AP)

Afghan officials say the Taliban has taken another provincial capital, the southern city of Kandahar in the province with the same name.

It is the 12th provincial capital out of Afghanistan’s 34 that the insurgents have taken in their week-long blitz that swept over much of the country.