WATCH: Taliban ‘celebrates’ final American troops fleeing Afghanistan… ‘firing extra ammo than in precise fight’ – RT correspondent

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Volleys of celebratory gunfire had been heard throughout the Afghan capital to mark the entire withdrawal of American forces after a bloody 20-year battle, with the newly reinstalled Taliban authorities declaring “full independence.”

“There’s plenty of gunfire,” RT’s senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported from Kabul within the early hours of Tuesday morning, talking over the din of small arms popping off within the background. “This gunfire is not violent, there are not any clashes – within the capital the Taliban are celebrating.”

In all places, tracer rounds flying into the air of their 1000’s. The Taliban is celebrating victory, after 19 years, 10 months and 25 days, of the Afghan battle, the US battle in Afghanistan. 

The raucous celebration erupted as a large, weeks-long US evacuation effort lastly got here to a detailed, ending America’s longest battle, which expended tens of 1000’s of lives and trillions of over almost 20 years. With the American pull-out full, Kabul, and certainly nearly all of Afghanistan, are once more below Taliban rule, simply as they had been previous to the US invasion in 2001.

“The airport is now below the management of the Taliban,” Gazdiev added. “That’s the place the gunfire began, it has unfold now all through the town – machine weapons, rifles firing into the air, purple tracer rounds streaming into the air.”

I get the sense the Taliban expended extra ammunition on celebration than on precise fight over the previous month.

Movies capturing barrages of gunfire have circulated on-line, with pictures heard for miles across the Afghan capital as folks cheered on the American exit.

The Taliban has additionally joined in on the celebration, with spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid declaring that “The final American occupier withdrew… and our nation gained its full independence.” Earlier, the consultant clarified that the “sounds of gunfire in Kabul are pictures of pleasure on the withdrawal of US troops,” assuring Afghans they shouldn’t be “nervous.”

A day of celebration for Taliban fighters was a extra solemn one for the departing American forces, nonetheless, as some US residents and allies stay trapped in Afghanistan after a swiftly organized evacuation effort – marred by a lethal suicide bombing exterior the Kabul airport earlier this week – did not deliver all to security. 

“The USA leaves in a tragic state, as a result of many Americans, by no means thoughts the residents of US allies… they’re nonetheless caught in Afghanistan,” Gazdiev mentioned. “Folks with passports, we noticed them as we speak in Kabul metropolis middle. The crowds packed across the airport, they had been full of individuals with visas, with passports, determined to get out of Afghanistan. They haven’t managed to make it.”

The Taliban, nonetheless, has assured that these stragglers will likely be allowed to go away the nation as soon as common civilian flights resume on the Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport, together with Afghans who labored alongside US forces, regardless of being deemed collaborators by the brand new Taliban authorities. Although the group has up to now appeared to facilitate evacuations, regardless of some turmoil and confusion at Taliban-run checkpoints across the airport, it stays to be seen whether or not it should make good on its assurances.

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