KABUL—Taliban insurgents gave up their bid to take over the capital of the western province of Farah on Wednesday, slipping out of the city in the early-morning darkness without any apparent resistance from government forces, residents said.
After a day of intense fighting with government forces, backed by Afghan and U.S. fighter aircraft and drones, Taliban fighters were unable to seize control of the remote provincial capital—a goal Afghanistan’s largest insurgency has been unable to achieve anywhere in the country since...