What else is happening: Hours after the Taliban captured the key eastern city of Jalalabad, helicopters were landing near the U.S. Embassy to conduct “rapid shuttle-run flights,” per AP.

A U.S. Embassy official told Reuters on Sunday morning, “We have a small batch of people leaving now as we speak, a majority of the staff are ready to leave … the embassy continues to function. The embassy continues to function.”

AP reports “diplomatic armored SUVs” were leaving the area and “wisps of smoke” were seen near the roof of the embassy “as diplomats urgently destroyed sensitive documents.”

What they’re saying: The U.S. Embassy in Kabul tweeted that it had “conveyed to the Taliban reps” in Doha, Qatar, where peace talks have been taking place, that any action that put American personnel “or our mission at risk” would be met with a “swift” and “strong” response from the U.S. Defense Department.