The Taliban say they have control of more than 200 districts in 34 provinces of Afghanistan. — AP/File
The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government side as soon as next month, a spokesman for the insurgents said even as they make major territorial gains in the breach left by departing foreign forces.
Hundreds of Afghan security force members have fled into neighbouring Tajikistan in the face of Taliban advances since the United States vacated its main Afghan base, centrepiece of US and Nato might for almost two decades in the country, as part of a plan to withdraw all foreign troops by September 11.