The airport in kabul is the only way to leave the country by air and thousands of foreign nationals and afghans are trying to do that. This gives you some sense of the desperation. A Toddler Being handed over to soldiers at the airport. And this woman is being helped Over The Wall by soldiers. But even getting this close to the airport is difficult. The taliban control the checkpoints on the route to the airport. Kim sangupta is the Defence Editor for the independent and hes in kabul. There is no guarantee that if you go past one checkpoint that you will pass the other. The taliban have got every single checkpoint from the City Centre up centre up to the airport. Theyve also got that checkpoint which then veers right into the military airport. And, really, that chances of getting through these checkpoints depends to a large extent on the type of fighters there are manning them. Some have been ok, but then again, youve got others where fighters are extremely aggressive and quite violent
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The us continued its withdrawal the taliban continued to protect its operations. by the beginning of august, they took territory they have an occupied for 20 years. on the 6th of august came another strategic symbolic moment, and the taliban took its first capital. it was a city on the southern border of ireland. it fell without a fight. afghanistan made this plea to the us. ., . , .,. afghanistan made this plea to the us. ., . , .. ., , us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. we - us. the council must act and prevent a catastrophic situation. we are - a catastrophic situation. we are alarmed by incidences, by the taliban and their association. that alarm will have grown. alarm will have grown. mostly without resistance.