US struggles to get Americans out of Afghanistan amid chaotic evacuation

US troops fired warning shots Monday as they struggled to manage a chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan hours after the Taliban swept into the capital of Kabul — with five people reportedly killed at the airport amid the pandemonium to flee the war-torn country. Hours earlier, the insurgents toppled the Western-backed government after a lightning offensive in which they captured one provincial capital after another before entering Kabul.-- More...

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