Afghanistan crisis: Thousands attempt to flee as Taliban claim peaceful intentions
WARNING: Video contains disturbing content not suitable for all viewers. Viewer discretion is advised. Thousands of Afghans desperate to leave the country thronged Kabul airport where five people were killed on Monday after Taliban insurgents seized the capital, prompting the U.S. military to suspend evacuations to clear the airfield. The United States temporarily halted all evacuation flights from Kabul to clear people who had converged on the airfield, a U.S. defence official told Reuters. On Sunday Taliban officials declared the 20-year war over and issued statements aimed at calming the panic that has been building in Kabul as the militants, who ruled from 1996 to 2001, routed the U.S.-backed Afghan army as foreign forces withdrew. It took the Taliban just over a week to seize control of the whole country after a lightning sweep that ended in Kabul as government forces trained for years and equipped by the United States and others at a cost of billions of dollars, melted away. U.S. officers have long worried that corruption would undermine the resolve of badly paid, ill-fed and erratically supplied front-line soldiers. Both the United Nations and the United States said last week they had received reports that Taliban fighters were executing surrendering government soldiers. Taliban officials said they had received no reports of any clashes anywhere in the country: "The situation is peaceful," one said. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/8116207/taliban-afghanistan-explainer-why-how-what-comes-next/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc
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