No plan to take Kabul 'by force', say Taliban after entering Afghan capital
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Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of Kabul while panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the US Embassy in the Afghan capital as the militants' further tightened their grip on the country. Three Afghan officials told The Associated Press that the Taliban were in the districts of Kalakan, Qarabagh and Paghman in the capital. The militants later pledged not to take the capital “by force”.