Share:Flights were suspended at Afghanistan's main international airport in Kabul on Monday as crowds of people anxiously waited at its gates in hopes of leaving the country. A day after Afghanistan's capital fell to the Taliban, US and Afghan forces surrounded the airport, along with Taliban fighters, as gunshots were fired into the air to disperse the crowd. The media office of Hamid Karzai International Airport said in a statement that all civilian flights from the airport had been suspended. The Taliban, for their part, urged people gathered at the airport to "go home." Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission has appealed for urgent humanitarian rescue and relief for thousands of war-displaced Afghans stranded in various parts of the country.

Source: The Nation August 16, 2021 14:26 UTC