Heart wrenching images continue to surface from Afghanistan, US evacuates 3,000 people and more

The U.S. has evacuated about 3,000 more people from Afghanistan's Kabul airport, according to a White House official, which has brought U.S. evacuations to about 9,000 since August 14. As per reports, only 350 of the evacuees were U.S. citizens. While overall, 18,000 people have been evacuated since the Taliban took over the country.

Meanwhile, a U.N. threat assessment report says Taliban fighters are making "targeted door-to-door visits" of people who have worked with U.S. and NATO forces, raising fears of revenge.

[caption id="attachment_36976" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Afghan family at the Pakistan border.[/caption]

"We know that the Taliban have closed the road leading to the airport as a way to restrict the flow of people there as the evacuation flight of the U.S. military continues," Al Jazeera's Rob McBride from Kabul stated.

Meanwhile, the rights group Amnesty International has released a report accusing the Taliban of killing nine ethnic Hazara men in Ghazni following the group's takeover of the province last month.

[caption id="attachment_36977" align="aligncenter" width="636"] Afghan people climb up on a plane and sit by the door as they wait at the Kabul airport as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport[/caption]

The Taliban has begun to show its violent and intolerant behaviour towards the public. Taliban fighters chasing a journalist with Deutsche Welle shot and seriously injured a member of his family, the German public broadcaster announced.

Deutsche Welle (D.W.) stated the Taliban had conducted a house-to-house search to find the journalist now working in Germany. At the same time, his relatives were able to escape and are now on the run, according to the channel.

[caption id="attachment_36978" align="aligncenter" width="657"] Taliban fighters on the streets of Kabul[/caption]

"The assassination of a close family member of one of our editors by the Taliban ... is unimaginably tragic, and says of the acute danger in which all our staff and their families in Afghanistan find themselves," said D.W. General Director Peter Limbourg and called on the government to act in Berlin.

The situation across Afghanistan continue to get intense; women are unsure about their future under the Taliban. A female journalist was not allowed to enter her workplace, with her office telling no females can work any longer at the media house following the orders of the Taliban.

[caption id="attachment_36979" align="aligncenter" width="649"] A young Afghan refugee at the Afghanistan- Iran border.[/caption]

Many Afghan students studying in neighbouring countries like Pakistan, India and even Bangladesh are worried about their families in their hometowns. A large number of them could not communicate with them since the Taliban took over the country.

Recently, a video of women crying for help and asking the US Military forces to take them out of the country also went viral. The women shouting, "Taliban is here, they are going to kill us, please help", made millions across the world cry.

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Thousands of Afghan women are forced to keep their faces covered and remain inside the houses. The Taliban is no longer operating on the promises and claims they made in their press conference on Wednesday. The new reports and videos surfacing from Talibans' "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" are devastating and heart-wrenching.