Taliban takes over Afghanistan – level 3
20-08-2021 07:00
The Taliban has seized control of the Afghan capital Kabul, and it has declared that Afghanistan is under its control.
The insurgents took control of nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, and gunmen took control of the presidential palace. They took down the flag of Afghanistan inside the palace just hours after the president Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
The Islamist militants encountered no resistance as they took back power two decades after the US overthrew them. Chaotic scenes erupted at Hamid Karzai International Airport as thousands of people flooded the tarmac, desperate to get a flight out of the country. Thousands more attempted to flee the country by road.
The US and UK sent military to secure Kabul’s airport and to help foreign nationals leave Afghanistan.
Difficult words: insurgent (a person fighting against a government), encounter (to experience something unexpectedly), tarmac (the area of an airport where aircraft park).
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