Dramatic scenes on Sunday evening at the international airport of. People flocked to the airfield after Taliban fighters invaded the Afghan capital. There were occasional scuffles because departures had been canceled. NATO had previously stated that the airport had been closed to civil air traffic. Numerous ministers, government officials and other civilians were desperately waiting for flights abroad, including German embassy staff. Local TV stations reported that several explosions could be heard. In Kabul itself it was rather quiet on Sunday. This means that the radical Islamic Taliban have reached their destination only a good quarter of a year after the international troop withdrawal began. They have declared the fighting over. The war in the country is over, said a Taliban spokesman. It will soon be clear how the country will be governed in the future. President Ghani wrote on Facebook that he had left the country to avoid bloodshed. As the broadcaster Al Jazeera reported, citing one of his bodyguards, Ghani was on his way to the Uzbek capital Tashkent. Many Afghans had recently feared that when the Taliban returned to power, they would again enforce a very strict interpretation of Islamic law. A Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera that it wanted relations with the international community. He added that the Taliban respected the rights of women and minorities and freedom of expression when they were in accordance with Sharia law.
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