Taliban at door of Afghan capital after eastern city falls, US starts evacuating embassy ...Egypt

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KABUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents captured the key eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad without a fight on Sunday, leaving the territory controlled by the crumbling government to little more than the capital Kabul. The United States started evacuating its diplomats and was sending more troops to help secure Kabul airport and the embassy after the Taliban’s lightning advances brought the Islamist group to the door of the capital in a matter of days. Just last week, a U.S. intelligence estimate said Kabul could hold out for at least three months. “We have a small batch of people leaving now as we speak, a majority of the staff are ready to leave,” a U.S. official told Reuters on Su

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