Taliban Victory Parade

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The Taliban held a military parade in the southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, showing off American-made weapons of war captured when the group defeated the Afghan army and overran the country, according to multiple reports. Taliban fighters flew their white-and-black flag atop US-made Humvees, multi-purpose trucks, and armored vehicles.

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In addition to the military vehicles, the parade also featured what appear to be captured police vehicles.

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The group even had a captured Black Hawk helicopter adorned with its flag fly over the event, CNN reported.

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They can look at them, they can walk around," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told CNN. "But they can't fly them. They can't operate them."

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A helicopter displaying a Taliban flag fly above of supporters gathered to celebrate the US withdrawal of all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar on September 1, 2021.

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