Desperation deepens as Afghan evacuations falter
Al Jazeera
Six days after the Taliban took power, the flow of people trying to flee has overwhelmed the Afghan capital.
Desperation deepened around Kabul’s airport on Saturday with evacuation operations in chaos and US President Joe Biden warning he could not predict the outcome of one of the “most difficult airlifts in history”. Six days after the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan, the flow of people trying to flee continued to overwhelm Kabul. Families hoping for a miracle escape crowded between the barbed-wire surrounds of an unofficial no-man’s land separating the Taliban from US troops and remnants of an Afghan special forces brigade helping them.
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