Afghans wait in long lines for hours to get visas in front of the Iranian embassy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug.... 31 withdrawal deadline were rushing troops back in this weekend to airlift their citizens, while the Pentagon was sending in fresh reinforcements.... Some complained the U.S. was failing to move fast enough to bring to safety the Afghans who fear retribution from the Taliban for past work with the Americans and other NATO forces....

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag, killing at least one person and fueling fears about how the insurgents would govern this fractious nation. Support our journalism.... Many have expressed dread that the two-decade Western experiment to remake Afghanistan will not survive the resurgent Taliban, who took control of the country in a blitz that took just days. Taliba

WASHINGTON( AP)--Educated young women, former U.S. military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the United States struggled on Wednesday to bring order to the continuing chaos at the Kabul airport.... " If we don't sort this out, we'll literally be condemning people to death," said Marina Kielpinski LeGree, the American head of a nonprofit, Ascend.... Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman descri

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Such protests have emerged as an early challenge to the Taliban, who fly their own white banner.“ Our flag, our identity, ” the marchers chanted in videos posted online.... “ And if they don’t find them, they are killing their families.” A reporter who visited the airport around 5 a.m. Thursday saw only a few hundred people gathered there.... Two hours later, the crowds were starting to swell....

There were scattered reports of looting and armed men knocking on doors and gates, and there was less traffic than usual on eerily quiet streets.... Taliban fighters ride on a police vehicle outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16.... — Reuters The fighters also went around the city, collecting weapons from civilians" because people no longer need them for personal protection", a Taliban official said." We understand people kept weapons for personal safety