The US troops fired shots in air at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport as crowd mobbed the tarmac on Monday.
US forces confirmed to Reuters that they were forced to fire in air to prevent Afghans running onto tarmac to board military flights. Kabul, the ultimate prize in every Afghanistan war, fell to the Taliban on Sunday, completing their takeover of the country in a lighting offensive that saw provinces and warlords give up without a fight, days after the hasty withdrawal of US troops.
This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I've seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No aid agencies, no UN, no government. Nothing. pic.twitter.com/LCeDEOR3lR
— Nicola Careem (@NicolaCareem) August 16, 2021
Armed Taliban fighters have entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace in Kabul hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 15, 2021