The Taliban have raised their own flag at the Panjshir Governor's office and claimed that the Panjshir province, the last stronghold of anti-Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan, was "completely conquered". The Taliban said the country was now finally out of war.

Meanwhile, Fahim Dashty, the spokesperson of Ahmad Massoud, who is leading a resistance movement to the Taliban, was killed during fighting with the Taliban in Panjshir on Sunday, reports said.