Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan govt spokesperson

Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government's senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as US and other foreign troops withdraw.

A police spokesperson in southern Nimroz province said the capital Zaranj had fallen to the hardline Islamists because of a lack of reinforcements from the Western-backed government.

A Taliban spokesperson said on Twitter that...