Taliban take over radio station after capturing Afghan city

It was not clear if the Taliban had purged the previous employees or allowed them to return to work.

The Taliban seized a radio station in Kandahar and took to the airwaves on Saturday after capturing much of southern Afghanistan in a rapid offensive that has raised fears of a full takeover less than three weeks before the . The Taliban have captured much of northern, western and southern Afghanistan in recent weeks, leaving the Western-backed government in control of a smattering of provinces in the centre and east, as well as the capital, Kabul, and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.