The United States has expressed concerns that the hardline Islamist group could topple the Ashraf Ghani-led government within three months, according to a US media report, which would see the return of the Taliban at the helm after nearly two decades.Īlso Read | Taliban near gates of Kabul as embassies prepare for evacuations The Indian mission in Kabul has also issued separate security advisories over the past few weeks, urging its citizens to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible on the earliest available commercial flight options. In their latest blitz, the Taliban fighters have reportedly taken control of Logar province, which is about 80 kilometres away from the capital.Īmid deteriorating situation, the United States and Britain are deploying thousands of troops, only to evacuate their citizens before Washington officially declares the end of its two-decades-long war. The Taliban, which was ousted by US forces in 2001, now controls over half of the provincial capitals and is gradually encircling Afghanistan’s national capital Kabul, a city whose fall will signal a complete control of the Islamist fundamentalist group over the country. With the second- and third-largest cities of Afghanistan having fallen to the Taliban in the last 24 hours, the control of insurgents over the war-torn country looks imminent even as the international community has asserted that they won’t recognise any government imposed by military force.
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