SAS launch daring mission to rescue stranded Brits from clutches of the Taliban
The Mirror has learned an SAS team was deployed undercover deep inside Kabul on a hazardous mission to try and rescue Brits cowering from the Taliban manhunt.
It is believed the special forces operatives were joined by US operators and two Afghan interpreters who are among those hoping to escape Kabul for fear of Taliban reprisals.
The Mirror understands there are claims of summary killings by the Taliban as fighters perform door-to-door searches throughout Kabul city.
They are hunting down former officials, ex police, soldiers and anyone who worked with the former Kabul government- or with coalition forces.
By Monday evening as many as 900 British troops were protecting Kabul airport, along with 6,000 US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne.
Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait in desperate hopes of a flight out of Afghanistan ( AFP via Getty Images) Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here .
It means the UK Ministry of Defence has expanded the original rescue mission, boosting it with 300 reinforcements and sources say more are on standby in case the crisis worsens.
On Monday, the Mirror can reveal, a British private security team was forced to negotiate their way through a Taliban checkpoint and was given very alarming news.
Terrified women and children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul ( REUTERS) A source told the Mirror: “The Taliban told them: ‘you need to leave now because a large number of foreign fighters is heading to Kabul and you don’t want to be here when they arrive.
“These fighters will not be here to be peaceful.â€
The Taliban guard told them the battle-hardened foreign fighters were travelling from Wardak, 100 miles west of Kabul, and have a brutal and merciless reputation as fighters.
Have you been affected by the situation in Afghanistan? Let us know at webnews@mirror.co.uk.
A US soldier points his gun towards an Afghan passenger at Kabul airport on Monday as thousands attempt to flee ( AFP via Getty Images) Forces are in a race against time as scores of Afghans and foreign citizens try to flee Kabul.
Crowds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban were filmed chasing jets down the capital's airport runway with some even clinging to the wheels of a US military plane.
Distressing video also showed desperate stowaways plunging to their deaths from the aircraft as it took to the skies.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is seen at Downing Street on Monday ( Getty Images) A video appears to show two people falling from the aircraft soon after takeoff.
Hundreds of Afghans had gathered on the tarmac in a last-ditch bid to board flights out of the country and escape Taliban rule.
One video showed a crowd running alongside a moving US military plane with several people clinging to its wheels as it began its takeoff from the runway.
At least five people were killed during the chaos, witnesses told the Reuters, new agency.
An American official said earlier that troops had fired in the air to deter people trying to force their way onto a military flight that was set to evacuate US diplomats and embassy staff from Kabul.
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