Taliban parade captured US military equipment in Kandahar

Militants show off Humvees as leaders gather in group's southern Afghan heartland

Taliban fighters have stood aboard captured Humvees as they prepared for a parade of plundered US military hardware in their southern Afghan heartland.

A long line of green vehicles sat in single file on Wednesday on a highway outside Afghanistan's second-biggest city, Kandahar, many with white-and-black Taliban flags attached to aerials, according to an AFP journalist.