video thumbnail taliban celebration scene
Video Ad Feedback
Taliban seen celebrating as final US troops leave Afghanistan
02:33 - Source: CNN
Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban 16 videos
video thumbnail taliban celebration scene
Video Ad Feedback
Taliban seen celebrating as final US troops leave Afghanistan
02:33
Now playing
- Source: CNN
family
Video Ad Feedback
Refugees start new life in America after fleeing Afghanistan
04:49
Now playing
- Source: CNN
afghanistan girls robotics team rivers 1005
Video Ad Feedback
Afghan girls' robotics team speaks out after fleeing Taliban
03:31
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Sadeed Family
Video Ad Feedback
Gunshots at the airport and tents in Germany. Hear one family's journey out of Afghanistan
03:55
Now playing
- Source: CNN
People inspect the inside of a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province northern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. A powerful explosion in the mosque frequented by a Muslim religious minority in northern Afghanistan on Friday has left several casualties, witnesses and the Taliban's spokesman said. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)
Video Ad Feedback
Shia mosque in Afghanistan devastated by explosion
03:16
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Afghan medical staff members stand at the entrance of a hospital as they wait to receive the victims of an explosion in Kabul on October 3, 2021. (Photo by Hoshang HASHIMI / AFP) (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
Video Ad Feedback
Taliban: Explosion kills civilians attending funeral prayers
01:59
Now playing
- Source: CNN
US drone strike Afghanistan family coren pkg intl hnk vpx_00003909.png
Video Ad Feedback
CNN speaks to family of victims killed by US military's wrongful drone strike
04:35
Now playing
- Source: CNN
video thumbnail bashir pkg
Video Ad Feedback
See what's happening to Afghan refugees arriving in the UK
03:50
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Clarissa Ward 9/29
Video Ad Feedback
Ward: Afghanistan is a humanitarian crisis in the making
03:54
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Bagram Afghanistan prison Robertson dnt lead thumb vpx
Video Ad Feedback
See what CNN reporter saw inside US air base now under Taliban control
05:57
Now playing
- Source: CNN
afghanistan taliban kabul displaced camp Robertson PKG intl ldn vpx_00002603.png
Video Ad Feedback
'Awful conditions': See camp for displaced Afghans on Kabul's periphery
03:41
Now playing
- Source: CNN
When the Taliban were closing in on Kabul, Italian educator Selene Biffi reached out to her former Afghan students. Three of her students and their families made it out of Aghanistan and after quarantine they were finally reunited with their teacher. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Video Ad Feedback
As Taliban took over, she sent a message to her old teacher. See what happened next
02:47
Now playing
- Source: CNN
screengrab afghan female judge
Video Ad Feedback
Hear from female judge hiding in Afghanistan as Taliban threaten her for her work
03:27
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Mahbouba Seraj, human rights activist and CEO of Afghan Women's Network, sits down with CNN's Nic Robertson in Kabul, Afghanistan to talk about the deteriorating situation of women's rights under Taliban rule.
Video Ad Feedback
'What are they going to do? Kill all of us?': Hear from female activist in Kabul
04:11
Now playing
- Source: CNN
CNN's Becky Anderson sits down with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan for a wide ranging interview. Rejecting accusations of tacit support for the Taliban, Khan spoke about opening up the airways to Kabul and an aid route -- as well as relations with the US and the growing influence with China.
Video Ad Feedback
'It could go to chaos': Hear Pakistani PM's concern about Afghanistan
04:35
Now playing
- Source: CNN
Afghan Pilots Blurred
Video Ad Feedback
Stranded Afghan military pilots on the move toward freedom
02:27
Now playing
- Source: CNN
CNN  — 

Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States from the tarmac of Kabul airport on Tuesday, hours after the withdrawal of the last American troops left Afghanistan in the grip of the militant group.

The airport that in recent weeks had been the epicenter of a frantic Western evacuation mission was transformed into a stage for Taliban celebrations after the final US plane departed just before midnight on Monday, bringing an end to America’s longest war.

Videos showed Taliban fighters filling the night air with gunfire and walking through the airport. As the sun rose on Tuesday, footage showed the militants making their way through an abandoned hanger strewn with equipment the US left behind.