Taliban supporters held a mock funeral in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Tuesday. Coffins with the flags of NATO, USA, France and Great Britain were carried through the crowd. Participants and onlookers, mostly men, held up rifles, waved Taliban flags or filmed the event on their cell phones. Celebrations took place across the country that day after the withdrawal of the last US troops and their NATO allies. These pictures came from Kabul airport on Tuesday. They show Taliban soldiers examining abandoned US helicopters and aircraft. Damaged military helicopters with smashed windows and flat tires could be seen all over the tarmac. US soldiers destroyed more than 70 planes and dozens of armored vehicles before withdrawing. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said he was not concerned about the pictures. You could inspect everything, just not fly, he told CNN. The last US soldier boarded the last US plane for the time being one minute before midnight on Monday. The 20-year deployment had killed nearly 2,500 US soldiers and an estimated 240,000 Afghans. After the withdrawal, the radical Islamic Taliban want to rule the country from now on. They had already been in power from 1996 to 2001.
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