The Taliban conquered Herat, one of the largest cities in Afghanistan, on Thursday and are now fighting to take the second-largest Afghan city of Kandahar, according to an aide to a regional warlord and other officials. “Unfortunately, the Taliban managed to get into [Herat] city with the help of their infiltrators,” Abdul Razaq Ahmadi, an aide to Ismail Khan, a former warlord who attempted to organize the defense of Herat, told the Wall Street Journal. “The police headquarters has been captured by the Taliban as all police forces left it before the arrival of the Taliban militants.” A main Taliban spokesman also wrote in a tweet that Herat was captured by the group, which was designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization in the 1990s, and videos that surfaced online showed the white Taliban flag flying over government offices. “In the western part of the country, the large …