Tensions are running high around the Kabul airport as US soldiers oversee a hasty evacuation following the Taliban takeover of the Afghan capital, with crowds of civilians desperate to flee the country seen pleading for help.
With thousands of Afghans still camped around the airfield hoping to catch a flight out of the city, chaotic scenes were captured in videos circulating online early Thursday morning local time, some purporting to show Taliban fighters firing smoke and stun grenades to disperse crowds gathered a short distance outside the airport.
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