Afghanistan falls to the Taliban: Armed Afghans beat back Taliban in some areas as countries wrestle with new political reality

Subsequent, we needed to make a run for the navy facet of the airport, part of the town quickly becoming the most dangerous. The evening earlier than, Taliban fighters had stormed a crowd ready exterior the terminal, beating males, girls and kids making an attempt to flee the nation. By morning, the militants had arrange checkpoints and deployed dozens of fighters to dam roads resulting in the airport. A kind of checkpoints was a only a few hundred yards from the compound the place I used to be staying.