![]() ![]() “The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly including at the airport,” the embassy said in a statement. embassy in Kabul warned on Sunday that the airport had come under fire amid the Taliban’s push into the city. troops already a the airport to help evacuate Americans who work at the Kabul embassy and some Afghans who have applied for visas, the U.S. While President Joe Biden has ordered another 1,000 troops to bolster the roughly 5,000 U.S. ![]() The Taliban captured Kabul on Sunday as former President Ashraf Ghani fled to neighboring Tajikistan, leaving Taliban fighters to occupy the presidential palace and mark the return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan almost exactly 20 years after the United States initially invaded the country. The scene at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has devolved into chaos as both Afghan and foreign nationals seek to flee Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s violent campaign to reclaim the country. ![]()
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