Taliban violently block Australian citizens from Kabul airport evacuation flights

The road to Kabul airport – crowded, chaotic and punctuated by regular gunfire – has proved impassable to dozens of Australian citizens and visa-holders trying to reach military evacuation flights out of Afghanistan. On Thursday afternoon, the Australian government issued a public message to Australian citizens and visa-holders in the Afghan capital to travel to Kabul airport to board an evacuation flight out of the country that has fallen to the Taliban.-- More...