Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan resumed early on August 17 after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.
Evacuation Flights Resume As Exodus From Kabul Continues
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Afghans line up outside the French Embassy in Kabul on August 17 seeking visas and permission to get on a military flight to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghans sitting outside the French Embassy in Kabul on August 17 waiting to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghans line up to apply for visas outside the Iranian Embassy in Kabul on August 17.
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A British Royal Air Force transport plane takes off from RAF Brize Norton in southern England, on August 17. Britain is sending 900 soldiers back to Afghanistan over the coming days to help with repatriations and evacuations. British officials were aiming to take up to 1,500 people from Afghanistan a day.
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Spanish troops prepare to depart for Afghanistan at the Zaragoza air base, northeastern Spain, in the early morning of 17 August. The troops will evacuate Spanish nationals and local Afghans who worked for them.
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French and Afghan nationals line up to board a French military transport plane at Kabul airport.
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French soldiers stand guard near a military plane on August 17.
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An Afghan man holds a certificate acknowledging his work for the United States as hundreds of people gathered outside the international airport on August 17 looking to flee Kabul.
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Hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul.
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Desperate to flee the Taliban, crowds mobbed the tarmac of Kabul airport on August 16, forcing U.S. military officials to suspend flights.
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Evacuees crowd the interior of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft. It carried some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul on August 15.
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A child walks near discarded Afghan military uniforms as his family waits to leave Kabul airport on August 16.
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Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint that was previously manned by U.S. troops near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on August 17.
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Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul.
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A deserted street in Kabul's Green Zone on August 17. Many Afghans are staying in their homes.
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Taliban fighters on a pickup truck move around a busy market area in the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17.
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Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance gate outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul.
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The Afghan flag still flew over the Presidential Palace in Kabul on August 17.
