Brussels: European nations and the EU scrambled to evacuate their citizens and local staff from Kabul on Sunday, as NATO said it would keep the airport open with the Taliban closing in on power.

The hardline Islamists were on the brink of total victory in Afghanistan, after the government conceded it was preparing for a "transfer of power."

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