The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling
metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without
police or traffic controls.
Aljazeera reports that 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 with Senior US military officials confirming to Aljazeera that the
chaos left seven dead, as well as several who fell from the flight.
According to AP, the Taliban, a militant group that ran the
country in the late 1990s, have again taken control.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ousted the insurgents from power, but they never left.
After they blitzed across the country in recent days, the
Western-backed government that has run the country for 20 years collapsed.
CNN reports that hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac
at Kabul’s international airport, desperately seeking a route out of
Afghanistan on Monday after the Taliban’s sudden seizure of power sparked a
chaotic Western withdrawal and brought to a crashing end the United States’
two-decade mission in the country.
Meanwhile, at a special session of the UN Security Council
in New York, UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, urged 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.
US President Joe Biden also received a briefing by top
security officials on the situation in Afghanistan, the White House said.
“This morning, the President was briefed by his national
security team, including the Secretary of Defense and Chairman Milley, on the
security situation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and ongoing efforts
to safely evacuate American citizens, US Embassy personnel and local staff, SIV
(special immigrant visa) applicants and their families, and other vulnerable
Afghans,” it said in a statement.
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