Taliban blitz across Afghanistan
\nnews agency
\nKABUL
\nThe United States and Britain ordered the deployment Friday of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their nationals, as the Taliban overran more key regional cities in an offensive that has left the capital dangerously exposed.
\nThe orders came as the Taliban took control of Kandahar, the nation\u2019s second-biggest city in the insurgency\u2019s heartland, leaving only Kabul and pockets of other territories in government hands.
\nThey were also closer to taking Logar province, at the gates of Kabul, with a Taliban spokesperson saying insurgents had captured the police headquarters and city jail in the capital, Pul-e-Alam.
\nEarlier, officials and residents in Kandahar told AFP that government forces had withdrawn en masse to a military facility outside the southern city. \u201cKandahar is completely conquered. The Mujahideen reached Martyrs\u2019 Square,\u201d a Taliban spokesperson tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taliban blitz across Afghanistan news agency KABUL The United States and Britain ordered the deployment Friday of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their nationals, as the Taliban overran more key regional cities in an offensive that has left the capital dangerously exposed. The orders came as the Taliban took control of Kandahar, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n