Afghanistan, “Taliban checkpoints block Afghans outside the airport”

In Kabul, Afghanistan, the Taliban “prevent” Afghans from reaching the airport. Al-Jazeera reports yesterday after the spokesman for the movement founded by Mullah Omar, Zabihullah Mujahid, during the second press conference in Kabul since the surrender of the Afghan capital to the Taliban, said that “access” to the airport is allowed only to foreign citizens and not Afghans “. Read also According to correspondent Charles Stratford, “the situation” in the airport area “has changed” and is “increasingly tense” and – the broadcaster’s website reads – the Taliban have set up a checkpoint five kilometers from ‘ north entrance of the airport, where most of the Afghans who hope to be able to leave the country have gathered. They block everyone, the correspondent said, “unless they prove they have an American visa, an American passport or an invitation from the United States or NATO countries.” airport, where “the Taliban have set up a checkpoint, preventing people from passing without the required documents”.