- The US ends military operations in Afghanistan after 20 years.
- Taliban celebrate victory with gunfire
- Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official, says he is "proud" to witness "these historic moments".
KABUL: After 20 years and expenses of trillions of dollars in Afghanistan, the United States ended its longest war when all of its troops left the country, with a Republican senator terming President Joe Biden’s handling of withdrawal as “great shame”.
The remainder of the American soldiers administering a frantic clearing exertion flew out of the Kabul air terminal on Monday night, finishing a withdrawal that has brought up profound issues about the US's status as a superpower.
Taliban contenders immediately cleared into the air terminal and shot weapons into the sky in celebration, commending an amazing triumph for the development twenty years after US powers attacked Afghanistan and overturned them from power.
Be that as it may, the Taliban will acquire a crushed nation in spite of the US burning through billions to reconstruct it, with profound neediness, dry spell, and Daesh dangers among the many difficulties.
For the Afghan public, many are frightened by a rehash of the Taliban's underlying standard from 1996-2001, which was scandalous for their treatment of young ladies and ladies, just as a merciless equity framework.
The withdrawal came not long before the finish of an August 31 cutoff time set by President Joe Biden to call time on America's longest conflict - one that at last killed in excess of 2,400 US administration individuals.
The early completion followed a danger from the local branch of Daesh, opponents of the Taliban, which was looking to assault the US powers at the air terminal.
Thirteen US troops were among in excess of 100 individuals killed when a Daesh self-destruction aircraft toward the end of last week assaulted the border of the air terminal, where frantic Afghans had massed in anticipation of jumping aboard a departure flight.
In excess of 123,000 individuals were emptied from Kabul on board the US-drove airdrop activity, which started soon after the Taliban cleared into the capital on August 14.
'Faltering'
Biden said he would address the country on Tuesday in Washington, as his faultfinders kept on savaging him for his treatment of the withdrawal.
"We can't battle unlimited conflicts, yet the extension and result of Biden's disappointment here are faltering," Conservative Representative Rick Scott said.
"President Biden has welcomed incredible disgrace on the American public," added Representative Richard Hudson.
Biden's top ambassador, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had the option to offer minimal more than harsh words for the Taliban.
"Any authenticity and any help should be procured," Blinken said, as he reported the US had suspended its conciliatory presence in Kabul and moved its tasks to Qatar.
In Kabul, Taliban representative Zabihullah Mujahid said Afghanistan had "acquired full freedom" with the US withdrawal.
Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official, said he was "pleased" to observe "these noteworthy minutes".
AFP journalists in the city heard celebratory gunfire from a few Taliban designated spots, just as the cheers of contenders monitoring security posts in the Green Zone.
Air terminal vulnerability
Everyone's eyes will currently go to how the Taliban handles its initial not many days with sole authority over the country, with a sharp spotlight on whether it will permit different outsiders and Afghans to leave the country.
Blinken said few US residents stayed in the nation - "under 200" yet probable nearer to only 100 - and needed to leave.
A large number of different Afghans who had worked with the US-upheld government and dread reprisal likewise need to get out.
Western partners have voiced shock as of late that not all Afghans who needed to escape could get on the departure flights.
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The UN Security Chamber embraced a goal Monday, requiring the Taliban to respect a pledge to allow individuals openly to leave Afghanistan in the not-so-distant future and to concede admittance to the UN and other guide offices.
Yet, they didn't consent to require the making of a "protected zone" in Kabul, as conceived by French President Emmanual Macron.
Talks are progressing with regards to who will presently run the Kabul air terminal.
The Taliban have requested that Turkey handle coordination while they keep up with control of safety, yet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not yet acknowledged that proposition.
It was not promptly clear which carriers would consent to fly all through Kabul.
Regular citizen passings
Daesh had represented the greatest danger to the withdrawal after it completed the staggering self-destruction besieging outside the air terminal last week.
On Monday, they likewise professed to have terminated six rockets at the air terminal. A Taliban official said the assault was blocked by the air terminal's rocket protection frameworks.
Also, in a reverberation of the misfortunes of regular citizen passings that tormented the conflict and cost the US nearby help, a US airstrike in Kabul focusing on an implied Daesh vehicle bomb toward the end week seemed to have killed youngsters.
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The US said Sunday it had done a robot strike against a vehicle compromising the Kabul air terminal.
Individuals from one family revealed to AFP they accepted a lethal blunder had been made, and that 10 regular citizens were killed.
"My sibling and his four youngsters were killed. I lost my little girl... nephews, and nieces," Aimal Ahmadi told AFP.
