Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan’s presidential palace, hours after the insurgents entered the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday. Both President Ashraf Ghani and Vice-President Amarullah Saleh have left Afghanistan for Tajikistan.
US Embassy said the Kabul airport, where diplomats, officials, and other Afghans have fled, have come under fire.
Hundreds of Afghans, some of them government ministers and government employees and also other civilians including many women and children, crowded in the terminal desperately waiting for flights out. American diplomats were evacuated from their embassy by helicopter to the airport.