China News Service, August 15 According to foreign media reports on the 15th, after the Taliban forces arrived near the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Taliban leaders met at the Presidential Palace.

According to reports, the former Minister of the Interior of Afghanistan, Ali Ahmed Jalali, has been appointed as the head of the transitional government, and President Ghani will resign on his own terms.

  The source pointed out: "The president insists on his terms of resignation." Ghani said that it is impossible to transfer power before his heir is unknown and the long-term peace agreement is not signed and elections are held.

  Earlier, Arab Satellite TV quoted Afghan media reports that Ghani intends to step down on the 15th, "The transfer of power will be carried out at the Presidential Palace today."

  Earlier, media reported that Ghani had an emergency meeting with Zalme Khalilzad, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation of the US Government. Senior NATO officials also participated in the meeting.

  According to reports, the confrontation between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban has been going on for many years. In recent months, with the withdrawal of the United States and its NATO allies, the Taliban has launched an armed offensive, occupying most of the country's territory and launching attacks on major cities in Afghanistan.

  In early August, the Taliban occupied one of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals for the first time since 2016, after which they claimed to have seized more than 20 provincial capitals.