The Taliban ready to proclaim the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan

by time news

(Updated at 20.45)

Time.news – The Taliban are about to declare the birth of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul. This was stated by an insurgent commander to the Sputnik and PA agencies. Afghanistan will revert to its former name when the Americans arrived in 2001. The Taliban are about to announce the birth of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

The leader of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is leaving Qatar and will arrive in Kabul as interim leader of Afghanistan after the handover from the existing Afghan government.

Meanwhile, chaos has broken out at Kabul airport, looking for flights to leave the country. The BBC reports a real ‘assault’ on the area for Afghan citizens. People have been seen running towards the planes on the runway, according to eyewitness accounts. All commercial flights from Kabul airport have been suspended and only military flights can operate.

According to the media, loud explosions were heard in Kabul, while Western ambassadors, starting with the US one, left the capital of Afghanistan. According to local and international media, two major explosions were reported near the US embassy, ​​evacuated in the past few hours, and the presidential palace, which is now under the control of the Taliban.

The Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, explained on Facebook that he had fled the country to avoid a bloodbath for the citizens of Kabul. “Today, I ran into a difficult choice: having to face the armed Taliban who wanted to enter the palace or leave the dear country whose protection I have dedicated my life to protect for the past twenty years,” wrote Ghani, who would be refugee in Tajikistan.

Meanwhile, the UN Security Council will meet on Monday 16 August to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had spoken with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and had asked for a rapid convocation of the UN Security Council and the North Atlantic Council. . For its part, China is not oriented to sending its own soldiers to fill the void left by the US in Afghanistan but would be ready to participate in the reconstruction of the country.

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