BREAKING UPDATE: Taliban announces “amnesty” for all in Afghanistan and urges women to join its government. Women have raised concerns about their future under Taliban, which stripped them of almost all their rights when they last governed the country.
. Afghans has mobbed the airport in an attempt to get flights out of the country as the United States and other governments rush to evacuate their citizens.
Meanwhile, women have been raising concerns about their future under a Taliban government, which stripped them of almost all their rights when they governed the country. U.S.-led forces overturned the Taliban government at the end of 2001 after it refused to hand over the author of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Osama bin Laden.
Calm returned to Kabul's international airport Tuesday after a chaotic day saw hundreds of Afghans fleeing the Taliban rush the runway and hang off a U.S. Air Force flight, with several plunging to the deaths in chaos that killed at least seven people.The crowds came Monday while the Taliban enforced their rule over the capital of 5 million people after a lightning advance across the country that took just over a week to dethrone the country’s Western-backed government.
“After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces,” Biden said in a televised address from the White House.
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