LIVE: View of Kabul airport as evacuation flights continue

Ruptly is live from Kabul airport on Wednesday, August 18, as evacuation flights continue for foreign nationals and Afghans wishing to leave the country following the Taliban takeover. Taliban forces took control over the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, with the country’s President Ashraf Ghani having reportedly fled to neighbouring Uzbekistan. US President Joe Biden defended his decision to pull out US troops from Afghanistan during a speech on Monday. “American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,“ he said