Desperation deepened around Kabul’s airport on Saturday with evacuation operations in chaos and US President Joe Biden warning he could not predict the outcome of one of the “most difficult airlifts in history”.

Six days after the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan, the flow of people trying to flee continued to overwhelm Kabul.

Families hoping for a miracle escape crowded between the barbed-wire surrounds of an unofficial no-man’s land separating the Taliban from US troops and remnants of an Afghan special forces brigade helping them.

Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban have mounted, fuelling fears it will return the country to the repressive rule imposed when the armed group was last in power from 1996 to 2001.

Source: Al Jazeera News 

BDST: 1442 HRS, AUG 21, 2021
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