NYT: US asks Taliban not to attack their embassy in case of seizure of Kabul

This is reported by The New York Times, citing two unnamed American officials.

According to these data, at the moment the American authorities are trying to determine at what time the employees of their diplomatic mission in Kabul may need to evacuate if the Taliban * continue their offensive.

Earlier, the head of the Supreme Council for National Reconciliation in Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the crisis in the country.

* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.