“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 [8/16/2021] 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.”
– Zaheena Rasheed, Tamila Varshalomidze and Mersiha Gadzo, “Biden Defends Afghanistan Pullout Amid Airport Chaos,” aljazeera.com, August 16, 2021