Taliban Celebrate As Last American Leaves Kabul Airport

The US has officially withdrawn from Afghanistan, with its last jet taking off from the country on Monday night.

Videos showed Taliban fighters celebrating the US exit with gunfire, and seizing Kabul’s airport, where thousands of Afghans had desperately tried to flee after they took over the country.

BBC News broadcast footage of the gunfire, with Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet saying she could hear celebratory tracer fire and guns going off. She said it was…