Three Afghan officials told The Associated Press that the Taliban have entered the outskirts of the capital, Kabul.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorised to release the information, said there hadn’t been any fighting yet.
The Taliban fighters were in the districts of Kalakan, Qarabagh and Paghman.
The insurgents did not immediately acknowledge their presence in the capital.
However, government offices suddenly began sending workers home early Sunday as military helicopters buzzed overhead.
The officers, talking on the situation of anonymity, instructed AP that the Taliban militants have been within the districts of Kalakan, Qarabagh and Paghman, although there had not been any preventing but.
Panicked staff reportedly fled authorities places of work and helicopters landed on the U.S. Embassy.
Reuters additionally reported that the Taliban have began coming into Kabul from all sides, citing the Afghan Inside Ministry.
The rebel group has reportedly ordered its fighters to chorus from violence and permit protected passage to these searching for to go away Kabul.
The event follows the collapse earlier Sunday of Jalalabad, the final main metropolis exterior of Kabul held by the central authorities, with out a battle.
Since final week, the Taliban have swept throughout areas of the nation formally managed by authorities forces in a shocking blitz, taking such main cities as Kandahar, Herat and Lashkar Gah.
The northern metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif, was as soon as the bottom for resistance to the Taliban when it was beforehand in energy, was captured on Saturday.
The resurgence of the Taliban got here after the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden took steps to withdraw U.S. navy forces in Afghanistan to convey an finish to what it calls “America’s longest battle.”
Amid the quickly deteriorating safety scenario, the Pentagon stated it was sending hundreds of troops to the nation to make sure the protection of U.S. Embassy personnel and to facilitate the departure of Afghans beneath a particular immigrant visa program.
