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Aug 31, 2021, 7 tweets

VIDEO: 🇦🇫 Taliban fighters celebrate with gunfire as they enter #KabulAirport Tuesday after the last US troops flew out of Afghanistan to end two decades of war. Images posted by Ahmadullah Muttaqi, chief of the multimedia branch of the Taliban's cultural commission

VIDEO: 🇦🇫 The Taliban celebrate the US defeat in #Afghanistan in the country's second-biggest city #Kandahar, the capital of the southern province and the hardline Islamist movement's spiritual birthplace

#BREAKING NATO chief says 'essential' to keep Kabul airport open

#BREAKING NATO chief Stoltenberg vows will not 'forget' Afghans left behind: AFP interview

#INTERVIEW #NATO allies face tough questions about what went wrong in #Afghanistan but will not forget the Afghans left behind, nor the fight against terror, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told AFP in an interview Tuesday u.afp.com/UVoJ

VIDEO: 🇦🇫 Any other "invaders" of Afghanistan "will face what the United States has faced today," says Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid during a press conference at #KabulAirport Tuesday hours after the last US troops left the country

#UPDATE The hardline Islamist Taliban celebrated their total return to power in #Afghanistan on Tuesday with gunfire and diplomacy, after the last US troops flew out of the country to end two decades of war u.afp.com/UVo8 #KabulAirport

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