Taliban seize half of major Afghan city: police

September 28, 2015 20:08

The Taliban seized control of half of a major Afghan city today, the first time they have done so since being ousted from power by a US-led

invasion.

The hardline Islamists hoisted their flag over the main square of the northeastern city of Kunduz, witnesses said, after 2,000 of their fighters took the city, offering a potentially powerful image in a country that laboured under their rule until 2001.

"Half the city has fallen into the hands of Taliban insurgents," Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, police spokesman for the northeastern Kunduz province, told a news conference, adding local forces had not yet received promised external support.

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