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Credit: Marcus Yam /Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag A man cries as he watches fellow Afghans get wounded after Taliban fighters use guns fire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to maintain crowd control over thousands of Afghans who continue to wait outside the Kabul Airport. On Wednesday, hundreds of people remained outside KabulвЂ™s airport, already the scene of deadly chaos involving crowds trying to flee the country. The Haqqani Network, like the Taliban at large, faces US sanctions.

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That network, once allied to the US during the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, was blamed for a series of devastating suicide attacks amid the US war in Afghanistan. Karzai and Abdullah met Wednesday with Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in a powerful Taliban faction called the Haqqani Network. Mohammad Yusof Saha, a spokesman for Karzai, said preliminary meetings with Taliban officials would lead to eventual negotiations with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the top Taliban political leader who just returned to the country from Qatar. However the Taliban have been holding talks with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official in the ousted government. The United Arab Emirates acknowledged Wednesday that the Gulf nation had taken him and his family in on humanitarian grounds. One figure who was not at the talks in Kabul was Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who departed as the Taliban closed in on the capital. The Taliban, meanwhile, pressed ahead with their efforts to form an вЂњinclusive, Islamic government.вЂќ

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Babrak Amirzada, a reporter for a local news agency, said the Taliban beat him and a TV cameraman from another agency. Video footage later showed the Taliban firing into the air and attacking people with batons to disperse the crowd. Under Taliban control, Afghanistan will without doubt become ground zero of radical Islamist terrorism plots against democracies will be hatched here once again.вЂќ Taliban fighters gather around a vehicle during a protest in Jalalabad. вЂњThe Taliban is not a problem for the Afghan people alone. вЂњI write from the Panjshir Valley today, ready to follow in my fatherвЂ™s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban,вЂќ he wrote. In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post, Massoud asked for weapons and aid to fight the Taliban.

Those figures include members of the deposed government - Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who asserted on Twitter that he is the countryвЂ™s rightful president, and Defence Minister General Bismillah Mohammadi - as well as Ahmad Massoud, the son of the slain Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. A Taliban fighter patrols in Wazir Akbar Khan in the city of Kabul. That area is in the only province that has not fallen to the Taliban. There has been no armed opposition to the Taliban.Д«ut videos from the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, a stronghold of the Northern Alliance militias that allied with the US during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, appear to show potential opposition figures gathering there. In the days since the Taliban seized Kabul on Sunday, the militants only faced one other protest by a few women in the capital. The Taliban did not acknowledge the protest or the violence. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to brief journalists.

Credit: Anadolu Agency /Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesДЄ local health official said the violence killed at least one person and wounded six. вЂњThen the shooting started and the Taliban surrounded me and threatened and beat me.вЂќ A man holds an Afghan flag to mark the Afghanistan's independence from the British empire occupation on 19 August 1919, as Taliban take control of Afghanistan. вЂњI wanted to support the Afghan flag and stop the Taliban from desecrating the Afghan flag,вЂќ one protester said, according to CNN. They lowered the Taliban flag - a white banner with an Islamic inscription - that the militants have raised in the areas they captured. In an early sign of protest to the TalibanвЂ™s rule, dozens gathered in the eastern city of Jalalabad and a nearby market town to raise the tricolour national flag, a day before AfghanistanвЂ™s Independence Day, which commemorates the 1919 treaty that ended British rule. News International Monetary Fund SUSPENDS AfghanistanвЂ™s access to IMF resources after Taliban takeover

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