KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban deployed extra forces around Kabul’s airport on Aug. 28 to prevent large crowds from gathering after a devastating suicide attack two days earlier, as the massive U.S.-led airlift wound down ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline.
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Associated Press: Taliban largely seal off Kabul airport as airlift winds down
Afghan people sit as they wait to leave the Kabul airport in Kabul on Aug. 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.
