The Taliban have captured a military airport near Kunduz.
The population is fleeing or trying to normalize - but there are also other reactions.
Munich / Afghanistan - The situation in Afghanistan is very difficult for independent observers to assess.
It seems certain that the Taliban have captured nine of the 24 provincial capitals in the past few days - their most important success including taking the city of Kunduz.
Now the military airport - an important former base of the Germans - is said to have fallen to them.
According to
Bild.de
, photos and videos should show Taliban fighters who move freely on the huge facility, the runway and in the military barracks.
As
reported by
Zeit online
, the city of Faisabad, where Bundeswehr soldiers were stationed until 2012, was also taken.
Afghanistan: Videos show the situation after the troops withdrew in Kunduz
A video is said to show how Taliban fighters inspect warplanes donated by India:
Another video is said to show the withdrawal of the soldiers and how the Taliban are on the move with looted weapons:
One more video from the latest surrender in Kunduz.
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Germany suspended deportations to Afghanistan for the time being on Wednesday.
It is difficult to verify eyewitness accounts.
But much of the news from Kunduz is reminiscent of descriptions of the atrocities from the time of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, when they had established rule of ultra-conservative Islamic law.
Back then, women were not allowed to work or leave the house without a husband, and girls were not allowed to go to school.
Even minor offenses were punished with public flogging and execution.
A displaced person from Kunduz reported to the dpa that one of his sons had been beheaded by the Taliban.
They grabbed him, "as if he were a sheep, cut off his head with a knife and thrown it away," he said.
"I don't know whether his body was eaten by dogs or buried."
Other residents of Kunduz fled to other parts of the country fearing for their lives.
The Taliban patrolled the city triumphantly - while businesspeople tried to return to normal.
“Nevertheless, fear is written on people's faces,” says one shopkeeper.
In the provincial capital Pul-i-Kumri, 100 kilometers south of Kunduz, the extremists were welcomed with open arms, according to the dpa.
Young men took selfies with the Taliban fighters.
US experts estimate that the capital Kabul could also fall to the Taliban within 90 days.
(dpa / kat)
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