Afghanistan news LIVE updates: The British military says seven Afghan civilians have been killed in the crowds near Kabul's international airport amid the chaos of those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country. Meanwhile, India on Sunday evacuated 168 people, including 107 Indians, from Kabul in a military transport aircraft of the IAF. Separately, a group of 135 Indians, who were earlier evacuated from Kabul to Doha in the last few days by the US and NATO, also returned to India.
Kabul has fallen to the Taliban, forcing former president Ashraf Ghani to join the citizens and foreigners in Afghanistan to escape the country. Ashraf Ghani, however, is not the first Afghan president to lose power to the Taliban. Mohammed Najibullah was Afghanistan's president when the Taliban first captured the country. Read on to know about Mohammed Najibullah.
A video doing the rounds on social media, taken by a person who managed to cling on to the US military aircraft about to take off, gives a first-person view of the chaos that ensued at Kabul airport on Monday.
The Taliban have returned and so has the fear among many Afghan women of losing the gains they have made over the past 20 years. This fear reflects in the demand for burqas that has surged tenfold in Kabul.