U.S. adds planes to Afghan airlift as Taliban warns of "consequences" if withdrawal deadline is missed

An Afghan security guard was killed in a shootout on Monday just outside Kabul's international airport as hectic scenes continued with thousands of people clambering for a way out of the country. The Biden administration was ramping up its frantic evacuation efforts, with the U.S. military sending 20 more planes into Kabul to help fly people out of the country.

The pressure to complete the evacuation of tens of thousands of U.S. nationals, their dependents, and vulnerable Afghans was increasing, meanwhile, with Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers warning that the end-of-August deadline set by President Biden to have U.S. forces out would not be allowed to slide. The Taliban expects the roughly 6,000 American service members carrying out the herculean Kabul evacuation mission to be gone by August 31, or face "consequences." "If the U.S. or the U.K. were to seek additional time to continue evacuations, the answer is no. Or there would be consequences," Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sky News in Qatar.