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The Taliban have an Afghan provincial capital city for the first time since 2001. Police in the city of Zaranj, capital of the southern Nimroz province, said Taliban forces now in control. Nimroz is on the border with Iran. The police there were unable to because there were too few government soldiers to . A Taliban official said it was an important day for the group. He said the victory would the morale of his fighters in other provinces. He : "This is just the beginning. Other provinces will into our hands very soon." There currently heavy fighting in the cities of Lashkar Gah, Kanduz, Herat and Kandahar. They may before the Taliban for the nation's capital Kabul.

The Taliban are to take control of Afghanistan for the first time since 2001. This is when US-led forces them after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The USA and other western powers have 20 years trying to train an Afghan army and police officers to the country peaceful. However, the Taliban never up their fight to take the country back. The USA and the UK are currently their forces out of Afghanistan. They are their time in the country after 20 years. The UN's special envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, said the war there had "a new, deadlier, and more destructive phase". She that the country was for "catastrophe".