In Pictures: Taliban mass ‘at the gates’ of Kabul
Al Jazeera
The Taliban swiftly defeated, co-opted, or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swathes of the country.
Taliban fighters surrounded Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday as the world waited to see what negotiations around a transfer of power would result in. The armed group seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, sending thousands of internally displaced people fleeing the fighting to Kabul, seeking safety. In spite of hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the US and NATO to build up Afghan security forces, the Taliban swiftly defeated, co-opted, or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swaths of the country.
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