Taliban victory parade shows off dozens of US-made armoured vehicles

THE Taliban has displayed dozens of seized US-made armoured vehicles and helicopters in a series of "victory parades".

The jihadis wasted no time in showing off their new kit through the southern Afghan streets of Kandahar in the latest chilling display of their victory over US and UK forces.

At one point, dozens of US armoured vehicles were pictured moving down a remote highway - while a Black Hawk helicopter escorted them from above with the Taliban flag draped from its side.

The sobering scenes took place just hours after US President Joe Biden defended pulling troops out of Afghanistan and effectively bringing the country's two-decade presence there to an end.

He described the emergency evacuation of more than 122,000 in just over two weeks an "extraordinary success", adding: "'No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history; only the United States had the capacity and the will and ability to do it."

But in a humiliating turn of events on Wednesday, the jihadis - who seized billions of dollars worth of American military hardware from retreating Afghan soldiers - paraded dozens of green Humvees and armoured fighting vehicles and covered them in the white and black Taliban flag.

They also had a chopper fly overhead as fighters gleefully watched on and waved from below.

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