Taliban fighters stormed the Presidential Palace on Sunday and demanded a peaceful transfer of power as Kabul descended into chaos, with US helicopters evacuating diplomats from the embassy in the capital.
The US Embassy in Kabul, which has been the been the US s intelligence hub for 20 years and nerve center of the war on terror, is destroying all sensitive material and will be evacuated in 72 hours.
Insurgents tightened their grip on Afghanistan on Saturday by capturing Mazar-e-Sharif - a large, heavily defended city in the north of the country - in a major setback for the government.
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