The Taliban is getting more and more rampant, seizing the capital of Afghanistan’s sixth province

ACCEPT – Taliban has captured the sixth province in Afghanistan in just four days. The rebel group is increasingly confident in its ability to seize government territory.

A spokesman for the Taliban armed group early Monday sent a message to the media, claiming it had captured Aibak, the capital of the northern province of Samangan.

The Deputy Governor of Samangan Province confirmed the takeover to the news agency AFP.

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“The Taliban are in complete control,” the deputy governor said, shortly after a Taliban spokesman tweeted that all government and police installations in Aibak had been “cleaned”.

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The Taliban group says its fighters now control the provincial governor’s compound, the intelligence directorate, police headquarters and all other official buildings.

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Samangan is the fifth province to fall to the Taliban in less than a week, and sixth overall.

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