Afghanistan troops were forced to flee the country after the Taliban captured several districts in the country overnight.

According to Tajik officials, more than 300 troops were fled to Tajiksthan crossing Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province at about 6:30 pm local time on Saturday.

Tajik Officials said they allowed the retreating Afghani forces to cross the border “Guided by the principles of humanism and good neighbourliness.” 

Taliban controls roughly more than one-third of the 421 districts in Afghanistan.

According to Afghan authorities, 10 districts have been captured by Taliban Troops in the last three days, eight of which were captured without a fight.

The Taliban also captured a key district in its former bastion of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials said on Sunday.

The fall of the Panjwai district in the southern province of Kandahar comes just two days after US and NATO forces vacated their main Bagram airbase near Kabul, from where they led operations for 20 years against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies.

Over the years, the Taliban and Afghan forces have regularly clashed in and around Panjwai, with the armed group aiming to seize it given its proximity to Kandahar city, the provincial capital.

The province of Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban, which went on to rule Afghanistan until being overthrown by a US-led invasion in 2001.