Media have filmed smoke billowing from the US embassy building in Kabul. Journalists speculate that secret documentation is being burned there before evacuation, according to the Cartoon House telegram channel
News Front earlier reported that government troops surrendered Bagram airbase to the Talibanю Bagram airfield is the former main base of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. It holds 5,000 prisoners.
The situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated in recent weeks with an offensive by Taliban* fighters against major cities in the country. On Sunday, media and sources said the Taliban controlled all of Afghanistan’s border crossings, were on the outskirts of the capital and had taken control of Kabul University.
Meanwhile, the Afghan presidential administration said it was in control of the situation in Kabul, Al-Arabiya TV reported.
The Taliban later said they had no intention of retaliation, all officials in Kabul would be safe and no one should flee the country. Afghanistan’s acting interior minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal later assured that Kabul would not be attacked and the transition of power would proceed peacefully, local TV channel Tolo News reported.