Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul, an interior ministry official said. The senior official said the Taliban were coming in ‘from all sides,’ but gave no further details
The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in "from all sides" but gave no further details.
A Taliban official told Reuters the group did not want any casualties as it took charge but had not declared a ceasefire. The capture of Jalalabad followed the Taliban's seizure of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Saturday, also with little fighting.
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