Fear spread quickly after initial reports that Taliban mujahideen were at the entrance to the city.
Government officials were immediately called to evacuate the services while the stores closed without further notice.
With no resistance, the Taliban are advancing on the city, with their leaders preventing bloodshed and acts of violence without announcing a ceasefire. The international media reports that in this way they want to send a message to the international community that the young Taliban are different.
At the same time, emotional moments of separation become known through social media:
Aisha Khurram, former United Nations Youth Ambassador, tweeted about the situation at Kabul University this morning.
"Some teachers are saying goodbye to their students as they all left Kabul University this morning; and we may not see our graduation like thousands of students across the country.
"The Taliban are stationed all over the city, waiting for the right moment."
"Some teachers are saying goodbye to their students as they all left Kabul University this morning; and we may not see our graduation like thousands of students across the country.
"The Taliban are stationed all over the city, waiting for the right moment."
The post reflects the anguish of thousands of women across the country as, under Taliban law, the freedoms of women are negligible and the female sex is particularly vulnerable.
Some teachers said goodbye to their female students as everyone was evacuated from Kabul University this morning... and we might not see our graduation like thousands of students around the country.
Taliban are placed all over the city, just waiting for the right time...
- Aisha Khurram (@AishaKHM) August 15
Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, a US interior ministry official said as US troops evacuated diplomats from their embassy by helicopter.
The senior official told Reuters that the Taliban were entering the city "from all sides", but gave no further details.
A tweet on the Afghan presidential palace account said that fire was heard in some areas around Kabul, but that security forces, in coordination with international partners, were in control of the city.
U.S. officials said the diplomats were being flown to the airport from the embassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan area. More US troops are being sent to help evacuate after a Taliban advance that struck the Islamic State group in Kabul in a matter of days.
Just last week, US intelligence estimates suggested Kabul could hold on for at least three months.
Members of "central" US teams are working from Kabul airport, according to a US official, while a NATO official said several EU staff members had moved to a safer area of the capital, which has not been announced.
A Taliban official told Reuters the group did not want any casualties as it took control, but had not declared a ceasefire.
There is currently no comment from President Ashraf Ghani, who said yesterday, Saturday, that he was holding urgent consultations with local leaders and international partners on the situation.
Meanwhile, the Taliban have been ordered to remain at the gates of Kabul and not enter the Afghan capital, a spokesman said today, although fighters were seen by residents in a suburb of the city, AFP reports.
"The Islamic Emirate is ordering all its forces to wait at the gates of Kabul, not to try to enter the city," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter. "There are armed Taliban fighters in our neighborhood but there is no fighting," a resident of the eastern suburb of the capital told AFP.