U.S. military dogs in Kabul evacuated from the city’s airport among other officials as Taliban takes control of Afghanistan.
Ian Pannell reports live from Afghanistan and Martha Raddatz provides analysis on"This Week."United States troops have taken control of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as chaos continues after the Taliban took control of the country.
"The crowd was out of control. The firing was only done to defuse the chaos" and prevent the crowd from storming the runway," the official told Reuters.US soldiers take up their positions as they secure the airport in Kabul on Aug. 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.
When asked in an interview with British radio station LBC why he was taking it so personally, he said,"Because I'm a soldier. It's sad, and the West has done what it's done, and we have to do our very best to get people out and stand by our obligations." But the envoy, Zamir Kabulov who oversees Russia’s Afghan policy, said in a radio interview with Echo of Moscow the Taliban had learned its lesson from 20 years ago when the world moved against them as terrorists.
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