Panjshir Valley, last resistance holdout in Afghanistan, falls to the Taliban

In a voice message posted on his Facebook page, Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the last pocket of resistance forces in Panjshir, called for a national uprising against the group. Taliban assaults in recent days had killed “a record number of people and resistance forces,” including his own family members, he said. He accused the Taliban of using foreign fighters and said a country ruled by the group would be “isolated, in darkness, away from art.”