One year ago, the world watched in horror as Afghanistan’s capital fell to the Taliban. Following twenty years of Western military presence, the scramble to evacuate troops and allies was marked by chaos. As Afghanistan's capital Kabul fell to the Taliban, chaos and terror erupted, as thousands of people made a desperate dash to flee the city, fearing retribution for aiding Western forces.

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In the baking Afghan summer sun, thousands of people converged on the airport in Kabul. The Taliban's take-over of Kabul surprised the world; ‘No one thought it would be an absolute victory at this rapid a scale as it was, it was lightning speed’, says Obaidullah Baheer, a Kabul-based academic. 'Police officers took off their uniforms, ministers fled their ministries... for a period we had total anarchy and lawlessness', says Saad Mohseni, who founded Afghan news channel TOLOnews. As the Allies fled, people on the ground feared a new war. 'This was the most ridiculously outrageous screw-up that I've ever experienced’, says one Australian defence force analyst on the evacuation of Western forces and allies.

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