#UPDATE The Taliban were on the brink of total victory in #Afghanistan on Sunday, their fighters ordered to wait on the outskirts of the capital #Kabul and the country's interior minister conceding the government was preparing for a "transfer of power" https://t.co/neQxjo8bzB pic.twitter.com/XyFbYqKdhw
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 15, 2021
Afghanistan: Kabul to shift power to ‘transitional administration’ after Taliban enter outskirts – live updates https://t.co/f4GkhP6Naw
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 15, 2021
American diplomats in Afghanistan are being moved from the embassy in Kabul to the airport as the Taliban enter the capital, a U.S. official says. Military helicopters are shuttling between the embassy compound and the airport.https://t.co/W6teyRjQK0
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 15, 2021
#BREAKING US Sec. of State Blinken insists Afghan mission 'successful', rejects comparison between Kabul and Saigon pic.twitter.com/29ZMYoKtt2
— AFP News Agency
This is literally the situation in Afghanistan as of this very minute. pic.twitter.com/cEHeS1WJQR
— Wars on the Brink (@WOTB07) August 15, 2021
Footage from a Taliban-affiliated news agency apparently shows militants surrounding Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, and letting inmates out https://t.co/RB7ZChlVN6
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 15, 2021
A bit late, guys. https://t.co/Gk3qsv56Du
— Kim Dozier (@KimDozier) August 15, 2021
Some say Afghanistan is coming full circle. Taliban were in power, now returning. It’s much worse than that: people tasted freedom, and Taliban can now claim they drove the US out. So it’s not back to the beginning, but to a new, far worse place.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
