Afghanistan's Taliban move spokesman's office to Kandahar

FILE PHOTO: An Afghan girl walks past a U.S soldier from 4-73 Cavalry Regiment,82nd Airborne on patrol in the town of Hutal in Maiwand district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan April 5, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

KABUL (Reuters) - The main spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader.

The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the Taliban movement.