The Afghan Taliban took control of the five provincial capitals in just three days.

  The Taliban have partial control over three cities. 

The remaining 26 capitals have been besieged.  The next target will be Mazar-e-Sharif.  Taliban Mujahideen seize control of Kunduz in. Afghanistan Taliban Mujahideen have captured five provincial capitals in just three days.  It should be noted that the Taliban Mujahideen have now shifted their focus from the rural areas to the cities.  Sunday was a day of great victories for the Taliban Mujahideen.  Within hours, the Taliban captured the three provincial capitals, Qudursti, Sar-e Pul, and Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province.  Earlier, the Taliban had taken control of Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province, and Sheberghan, the capital of Jawzjan province.  Five of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals, Zarin, Sheberghan, Kunduz, Sar-e-Pul and Taloqan, are currently under Taliban control, according to the pro-Taliban Mujahideen news website.  The three provincial capitals, Kandahar, Herat and Lashkar Gah, are partially under Taliban control.  The remaining 26 provincial capitals are under Taliban siege.  According to sources, the speed with which the Taliban Mujahideen are taking control of the provincial capitals.  In view of this, it can be said that a few more provincial capitals may come under their control by Monday.  According to the foreign news agency AFP, the Taliban have tightened their siege in Shali Afghanistan on Sunday and the speed with which the Taliban have been snatching the provincial capital from the Kabul administration since Friday suggests that the Kabul security force is complete.  Have been overwhelmed.  According to the foreign news agency, the capture of Kunduz is the most important achievement of the Taliban after the announcement of the withdrawal of American and its allied forces. Kunduz city has already been an important target for the Taliban.  Twice in 2015 and 2016, Taliban Mujahideen briefly captured Kunduz after some resistance. On the other hand, after some resistance in the recent fighting, Taliban Mujahideen captured Sar-e-Pul city, government buildings and all facilities there.  Meanwhile, government officials and the Kabul administration's army retreated to a military barracks three kilometers from the city.  Northern Afghanistan has long been considered an anti-Taliban stronghold.  From there, there was resistance against the Taliban Mujahideen in the 1990s.  The area is home to many private militias and a fertile ground for government forces.  According to Ibrahim Thorial, an adviser to the International Crisis Group, the capture of Kunduz is significant.  Because as a result, a large number of Taliban prisoners will be released.  And in other parts of the north, the security forces will fight. That is, the Taliban will get no help.  On Friday, Taliban militants seized Zaranj, the capital of the southwestern province of Nimroz, near the Iranian border.  It was the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban. The next day, the Taliban took control of Sheberghan, the capital of the northern province of Jawzjan.  Leading Afghan affairs journalist Sami Yousaf, citing Taliban sources, said the Taliban's next target would be Mazar-e-Sharif.  And that the Taliban are gathering to attack Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province.  According to reports from Mazar-e-Sharif, private militia fighters have been occupying various positions for the past one month for fear of Taliban Mujahideen.  The majority of these private militia fighters are near the village of Siah Gard, north of Mazar-e-Sharif.  These private fighters have come together to support Kabul's government forces.  In order to save the important city of Mazar-e-Sharif from the control of the Taliban.  However, sources said that the morale of Kabul forces is very low.  And again, these would mean that you have to spend for these processes.  Hazara MP Abbas Ibrahimzada's militia is also among those claiming to defend Mazar-e-Sharif.  Abbas Ibrahimzada is also known as Abbas Dollar for making illicit wealth.  About a month ago, when the Taliban Mujahideen threatened to invade Mazar-e-Sharif, fighters from Abbas Ibrahimzada's militia as well as anti-Taliban commander Ata Noor Mohammad and Ustad Mohaqiq's private militia were deployed with government security forces.  Ata Noor Mohammad and Abbas Ibrahimzada have been sharply critical of President Ashraf Ghani for not sending significant forces by the Kabul administration to defend Mazar-e-Sharif.  On the other hand, Governor of Balkh Province Muhammad Farhad Azimi is not ready to trust private militias.  "However, the support of the local people is very important," he said.  But fighters from private militia groups are only playing a role in supporting Kabul security forces.  According to Farhad Azimi, the Kabul government has had bad experiences with private militia groups in the past.  Therefore, there is no intention to turn Kabul security forces into these groups, nor will the Kabul government rely on these private militias.  Because all the surrounding districts have been occupied by the Taliban before, the local police were the local militia fighters.  However, they fled after seeing the Taliban.  So these private militias can be used in an emergency, but they are civilian protectors.  Sources say differences between low-spirited government forces and private militias have made it easier for the Taliban to target.  As soon as the Taliban turn to Mazar-e-Sharif, the city will fall into their lap.  Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, is the fourth largest province in Afghanistan.  It is bordered by Kunduz to the east, Kabul to the southeast, Herat to the southwest and Uzbekistan to the north.  And it is the stronghold of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. After 9/11, when the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan, Mazar-e-Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the US-backed Northern Alliance.  And there, Northern Alliance commanders massacred more than 3,000 surrendering Taliban.