ali latifi, let's begin with you.describe the state of the capital which has fallen without the taliban firing -- well, it is unknown but hardly a bullet. >> right now it is pretty calm and quiet. just down the streets are starting to pick up. a few more people are going out. a few more stores and restaurants and the like are starting to open back up. it is slowly going back to normal. as you said, right now things are -- not a bullet has been fired. it is pretty calm. it is the exact opposite of the airport. the airport is chaotic and just looks li a scene out of a movie where as the city of kabul itself is calm and quiet and just people going about their business stop -- business. taliban posing with pictures with people. talking to people. you know, not anything like people were fearing yet. it seems in some ways similar to the stories of 1996, the first few days. but the other difference is slowly like women are coming out, most are dressing with long scarves and loosefitting clothing. some are wearing what the we

amy: ali latifi, inc. you for being with us afghan journalist , based in kabul and a correspondent for al jazeera english. stay safe most . coming up, who is isis-k? we will speak with haroun rahimi . stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "afghanistan" by badel safi. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we contin to look at the crisis in afghanistan, a day after least 95 afghans and 13 u.s. troops were killed after a pair of suicide bombings in kabul just outside karzai international airport. the militant group isis-k has taken responsibility. we are joined in istanbul, turkey, by haroun rahimi, assistant professor of law at the american university of afghanistan. he was en route back to kabul when he heard the news of the taliban takeover and stayed in turkey. he tweeted -- dylan "i am not doing well. no afghan is." professor, welcome back to democracy now! who are the isis-k? >> there are differentays to answer that question. you can look at their ideologi

earlier i spoke to localjournalist ali latifi from kabul.told me how at threat the capital is after these advances iam sure i am sure that carbo in similar sites, whether or not they can actually make it here or take the city, that is another issue, but in a way it is almost not entirely relevant at this point, because at this point if you talk to people in kabul, they are all afraid and angry because of the current situation overall. you know, province like kunduz does not continually fall to the taliban by accident. there is a lot of bardic governance and bad decisions along the way that could lead to bad. and at the same time, the fact that everything is so uncertain, that is what creates the fear, because now as you said, there is definitely the thinking that if the taliban can make it to kunduz they can make it to kabul and that is a big fear and there is also the issue of code we end up in another civil war, especially as now we have the public uprising forces were people are taking on the taliban along with security forces or if there

i'm joined now by a journalist on the ground in afghanistan, ali latifi, whojoins me from kabul.ing us here on bbc news. first off, i want to look at the significance of the significance of this particular target. it's quite a wait north, why does it matter so much? it quite a wait north, why does it matter so much?— quite a wait north, why does it matter so much? ., , ., ., ., matter so much? it matters for a lot of reasons- — matter so much? it matters for a lot of reasons. symbolically _ matter so much? it matters for a lot of reasons. symbolically in - matter so much? it matters for a lot of reasons. symbolically in 2014 - of reasons. symbolically in 2014 when the president came to power as part of the national unity government he kept saying he wanted to make it the model province of stand. he switched out the governor and all sorts of other officials saying that: dues would be the way forward the country. eight years later it fell to the taliban. the following year it also felt to the caliban. it's really a blow in turn two of the governments imaging and strategy. if you lo

and here's ali latifi, a journalist based in kabul, on his predictions. been getting messages from the taliban and their supporters either claiming to have taken an entire city or that they have gotten very close to the city. now, they have gotten close to the city and they have surrounded it, as they have kandahar and lashkar gah and herat. but what we've seen is that so far, they have been unable to take an entire major city. and kabul is, of course, the most prized possession of them all. it's going to be the most difficult to take out of any city in the country. so, i think that it's still a little premature to say, like, you know, "in 30 days or 90 days, this is going to happen to kabul." and if you look at it, you know, the taliban control most of the provinces around kabul. they control several of the districts within kabul. or have a presence within the province of kabul, but i just feel like it will take a lot of logistical effort and manpower to take over a big city, especially one as big as kabul. the violence has resulted in an acute humanitar