Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia would probably not be able to assist all those in Afghanistan who are eligible for Canberra's assistance
U.S. forces took charge of the airport - their only way to fly out of Afghanistan - on Sunday, as the militants wound up a week of rapid advances by taking over Kabul without a fight, 20 years after they were ousted by a U.S.-led invasion.
The number of civilians had thinned out, a Western security official at the airport told Reuters, a day afterin which U.S. troops fired to disperse crowds and people clung to a U.S. military transport plane as it taxied for take-off. There has been widespread criticism of the U.S. withdrawal amid the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said "the images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West."
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