Taliban shoots guns & fireworks to celebrate US retreat from Afghanistan

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Taliban shoots guns & fireworks to celebrate US retreat from Afghanistan
The Sun17,448 views31-Aug-2021
TALIBAN fighters celebrated the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting by firing weapons and fireworks into the skies above Kabul on Monday - as the last American soldier was pictured leaving the country.

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the last plane had left the country on Monday night just before midnight local time, signaling the end of America's longest war.

Footage taken in Kabul shows Taliban members shooting celebratory gunfire into the air after watching the last US planes take off just before midnight local time.

Photos also show Taliban fighters inside the Kabul airport inspecting equipment including Chinook helicopters that were left behind by the US military.

Hours ahead of President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline to leave, military planes carried the remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport.

Thousands had been working tirelessly to try and evacuate Americans and Afghan refugees stranded in Kabul as the August 31 deadline loomed.

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