People chant "Afghan Lives Matter" outside the UN Headquarters in New York.

❗️Donald Trump says that it's time for Joe Biden to "resign in disgrace"

❗️✈️ US to 'take over air traffic control', increase troop presence to 6,000 in Kabul amid evacuations

Senior officials of the Taliban Islamist movement told The Times that the organization wanted absolute power in Afghanistan.

“We did not fight to share power with anyone,” one of the officials said.

Earlier, a spokesman for the Taliban's political office, Mohammad Naeem, declared the end of the war in the country, underlining that the military movement will not "allow anyone to use our lands to target anyone" and said that the group does not want to harm others.

🇦🇫 More than 60 countries – including the US, European countries and some others – said that foreign citizens and Afghans, who want to leave Afghanistan, must have an opportunity to do that safely.

The nations said that the Afghan roads, airport and border crossings should be open. They stressed that the Afghan people deserve safety, security and dignity, and the international community is ready to assist them in that.

✈️ United Airlines re-routing some flights to avoid airspace of Afghanistan

🗣 State Department: All US embassy personnel evacuated to Kabul international airport, perimeter secured by military

#URGENT |People are reportedly rushing toward Kabul airport as gunshots are heard

✈️ Airport of Kabul resumes commercial flights, Pentagon says

FAIL: Last night a man in Washington, DC, seemed to overestimate his abilities while trying to get a woman on the other side of the street through a strong flood current. Well, at least everyone is okay.

#URGENT | Moscow: Taliban's seizure of Afghanistan stems from US failure in country

😳 A video has emerged on social media appearing to show the US military using AH-64 Apache helicopters flying low above the tarmac at the Kabul Airport, with an ARD journalist, who originally posted it, suggesting they were "clearing the runway" of people.

INSANE!

❗️ Apocalyptic scenes at the Kabul International Airport, Afghan people are running along a U.S. aircraft and hanging onto its wings

😖 In the video you can see the tragic consequences of such actions...

#URGENT | US opens probe into Tesla autopilot after 11 crashes involving the system

🙋‍♀️ Conveniently AWOL.

As Kabul falls to the Taliban (banned in Russia), Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki takes the week off and the White House schedule for Monday is all but empty.

Reporters emailing Psaki receive an autoreply: “I will be out of the office from August 15th-August 22nd.”

Things rarely go as planned even if you are an American president!

Despite Biden's assurances a month ago that the Taliban wouldn't take control of Afghanistan the reality seems to be a little bit gloomier ...