US troops ramp up efforts to airlift thousands of people out of Kabul after Taliban says they will allow foreign forces to carry out evacuations for just one more week
Many fear a repeat of the brutal interpretation of sharia that the Taliban implemented when first in power from 1996-2001, or retribution for working with the US-backed government over the past two decades.
However he was forced to redeploy thousands of troops after the fall of Kabul to oversee the airlift. Some of have been crushed to death and at least one, a youth football player, died after falling off a plane.
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