Three years ago this month America withdrew from Afghanistan

Photographs and videos captured the haunting chaos, as America withdrew from Afghanistan and Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15th 2021. In one photo 640 Afghans are crammed inside an army cargo plane, fleeing the country on one of America’s final flights. In a video that horrified the world, Afghans who were not offered a place on another departing plane can be seen clinging on as it took off. So strong was their desperation that they ended up plummeting to their deaths rather than live under Taliban rule.