West warns of possible attack at Kabul airport amid airlift

US Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load people being evacuated from Afghanistan onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan (Master Sgt Donald R Allen/US Air Force via AP)

Western nations have warned of a possible attack on Kabul’s airport, where thousands have flocked as they try to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the waning days of a massive airlift.

With the August 31 deadline looming for the US to totally withdraw troops from America’s longest war, several nations have landed flight after flight on to the single runway at Kabul’s international airport to evacuate thousands of people who fear a return to the Taliban’s brutal rule.