Chaos has been unfolding at Kabul's airport as foreigners, Afghan officials and others try to leave the country. Hundreds of Afghan citizens, crowded in the terminal desperately waiting for flights out.
American diplomats were evacuated from their embassy by helicopter to the airport, even as local Afghan forces, trained for years and equipped by the United States and others for billions of dollars, were left behind.
All commercial flights have also been banned from Kabul airport and only military aircraft are allowed to take off. The airport is, however, still under NATO control.
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Nations such as the UK, Germany, Canada and the US are using military planes to pluck their nationals out of Afghanistan while scrambling to evacuate Afghans who worked with their troops.
The Taliban has, meanwhile, asked Afghan citizens to not leave their homes for now.