A U.S. official said troops had fired in the air to deter people trying to force their way onto a military flight that was set to take U.S diplomats and embassy staff out of the fallen city of Kabul.
The Pentagon has two weeks to rescue 30,000 US staff, translators and other Afghans who helped our troops by August 31 as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is set to hand over power.
Foreign Office chiefs say the UK s ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, remains in Kabul this afternoon, as Taliban militants pour into the city in a bid to seize control.
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