Latest News Live Updates: Taliban started entering Kabul from all sides, says Afghan interior ministry

Taliban have started entering Kabul from all sides, reports Reuters quoting Afghan interior ministry. Earlier Anadolu Agency reported that gunshots heard around presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital Kabul as Taliban close in on city. The Taliban on Sunday seized the last major city outside of Kabul held by the country's central government, cutting off the capital to the east as helicopters began landing at the U.S. Embassy there. The collapse of Jalalabad, near a major border crossing with Pakistan, leaves Afghanistan's central government in control of just Kabul and six other provincial capitals out of the country's 34. In a nationwide offensive that has taken just over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swathes of the country, even with some air support by the U.S. military

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