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Photos: Chaos, desperation at the airport as Kabul plunges into a crisis
Afghanistan has plunged into crisis as the Taliban insurgents moved towards the capital city Kabul at lightning speed following the US troops pull out. On August 15, the Taliban entered Kabul and hours later they captured the abandoned presidential palace. President Ashraf Ghani had left the country, sparking outrage within and outside the country. Meanwhile, the sudden closure of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday threw schedules for the few remaining airlines operating flights to Afghanistan into disarray, including Air India which had a flight scheduled for 12.30pm.
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A man pulls a girl to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16, 2021. Several photographs and videos on social media show Afghans crowding the airport trying to get out of the country after Taliban insurgents entered the capital on Sunday. (REUTERS)
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CH-46 Sea Knight military transport helicopter flies over Kabul, Afghanistan August 15, 2021. According to a Reuters report, all Americans in Afghanistan are expected to be evacuated in the next two to three days. For this, the US has approved another 6,000 troops to facilitate the evacuation process of Americans and Afghan citizens who were working for them from Kabul. (REUTERS)
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US soldiers take positions to secure the airport in Kabul on August 16, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hard line brand of Islamist rule. (Shakib Rahmani / AFP)
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Pakistan’s newspapers are pictured displaying front page news about Afghanistan, at a stall in Islamabad on August 16, after the Taliban took over Afghanistan following President Ashraf Ghani’s exit. (Aamir Qureshi / AFP)
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A Taliban fighter stands guard at the main gate leading to the Afghan presidential palace, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16. Afghanistan plunged into crisis as the US troops started withdrawing from the country in May and the Taliban made rapid advances capturing city after city. The U.S. military struggled to manage a chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan today. (Rahmat Gul / AP)
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People try to get into Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021. Major airlines like the United Airlines, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have said they were not using the country’s airspace. (REUTERS)
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Afghans crowd at the tarmac of the Kabul airport on August 16 to flee the country. US troops fired shots into the air at Kabul airport on Monday as thousands of Afghans crowded onto the tarmac desperate to leave the country a day after the Taliban takeover of the country. (AFP)
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British Forces from 16 Air Assault Brigade arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan, to provide support to British nationals leaving the country, as part of Operation PITTING after Taliban insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, on August 15. (UK Ministry of Defence via REUTERS )
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Taliban fighters stand guard along a street near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on August 16. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP)
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People walk through a security barrier while they enter in Pakistan through a border crossing point, in Chaman, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16. Normally thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis cross daily and a steady stream of trucks passes through, taking goods to land-locked Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea port city of Karachi in Pakistan. (AP/PTI)
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