Taliban seize Jalalabad, cut off Afghan capital from east

Taliban seize Jalalabad, cut off Afghan capital from east: KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban seized the city of Jalalabad early Sunday, cutting off Afghanistan’s increasingly isolated capital Kabul to the east as the insurgents’ blitz across the country continued as the US and NATO prepare to withdraw from the country after two decades of war. The militants posted photos online early Sunday showing them in the governor’s office in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. Abrarullah Murad, a lawmaker from the province told The Associated Press that the insurgents seized Jalalabad after elders negotiated the fall of the government there.