Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
Kabul - Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
A Taliban official told Reuters the group did not want any casualties as it took charge but had not declared a ceasefire. "There are no clashes taking place right now in Jalalabad because the governor has surrendered to the Taliban," a Jalalabad-based Afghan official told Reuters."Allowing passage to the Taliban was the only way to save civilian lives."
Taliban fighters entered Mazar-i-Sharif virtually unopposed as security forces escaped up the highway to Uzbekistan, about 80 km to the north, provincial officials said. Unverified video on social media showed Afghan army vehicles and men in uniforms crowding the iron bridge between the Afghan town of Hairatan and Uzbekistan.
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