Afghanistan crisis After Taliban takeover

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  Evacuees crowd the interior of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, carrying some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2021. / Credit: Courtesy of Defense One

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 Santiago Lyon/AP Three Afghan women in burqas in 1996 after the Taliban religious army took over Kabul.

 

 AL JAZEERA/AFP via Getty Images Members of the Taliban in the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 16, 2021.

  

 

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Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death

 

WAKIL KOHSAR, AFP via Getty Images Afghan families walk by the aircrafts at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.