As a major city falls to the Taliban, the United States and the United Kingdom advise residents to flee Afghanistan.

Because of the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, the United States and the United Kingdom have recommended its people to leave the country immediately.

The US embassy in Kabul released a statement on Saturday urging Americans to “depart Afghanistan promptly utilising available commercial travel alternatives.”

Because of security concerns and reduced manpower, the embassy stated its capacity to help US residents in Afghanistan was “very restricted even within Kabul.”

The US warning came a day after the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom requested that British people leave Afghanistan.

“If you are still in Afghanistan, you should leave immediately via commercial means due to the deteriorating security situation,” it stated.

The warnings came after the Taliban killed a top government spokesperson in Kabul on Friday and took control of their first provincial capital since ramping up attacks throughout the nation in May.

Zaranj, the seat of Nimroz’s south-western province, surrendered “without a struggle,” according to deputy provincial governor Roh Gul Khairzad.

The Taliban were able to take the city due to a shortage of government reinforcements, according to a spokesperson for the provincial police.

Abdul Khaliq, the Taliban’s “shadow governor” for Nimroz, and 14 other terrorists were killed in an air attack in Zaranj on Friday night, according to the Afghan Defense Ministry.


After nearly two decades of fighting, the Taliban’s national onslaught coincides with the exit of US-led foreign soldiers. Insurgents currently control large swaths of rural Afghanistan and are posing a threat to government troops in a number of towns, notably Herat, on the Iranian border, and Lashkar Gah and Kandahar in the south.

Last week, terrorists carried out two assaults against government officials in the capital to put pressure on the government to cease attacking its fighters with air strikes.

On Wednesday, Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi narrowly survived an assassination attempt in a bomb-and-gun attack, but Dawa Khan Menapal, the government’s media head, was assassinated by Taliban gunmen near a mosque in Kabul on Friday.