Afghans desperate to flee as Taliban takeover mob Kabul airport The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over after its fighters swe...
Afghans desperate to flee as Taliban takeover mob Kabul airport
The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
Victorious Taliban fighters patrolled the streets of Kabul on Monday as thousands of Afghans mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of rule.
Scores of Afghans ran alongside a US military plane as it taxied on the runway and several clung to the side as the jet took off.
Senior US military officials said that the chaos left seven dead, including several who fell from the flight.
The US military said it is sending another battalion of about 1,000 troops to help safeguard the Kabul airport.
Meanwhile, at a special session of the UN Security Council in New York, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged the Taliban to show “the utmost restraint to protect lives” and demanded that anyone who wanted to leave the country must be able to do so.
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