Officials said Taliban forces invaded Kabul on Sunday and demanded the central government’s unconditional surrender, while Afghans and foreigners alike fled.
This has signified the end of a 20-year Western experiment intended at rebuilding Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the embattled central government hoped for an interim administration but was running out of options.
Civilians rushed to leave the nation, queued up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings, fearful that the Taliban would reimpose the kind of ruthless rule that had all but abolished women’s rights.
Helicopters buzzed overhead, some reportedly transporting US Embassy officials.
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