The United States is demanding that Taliban militants allow all Afghan citizens who want to leave the country to freely reach Kabul airport, State Department spokeswoman Wendy Sherman said.

Sherman said U.S. officials are now in direct dialogue with the Taliban in Kabul and Doha about this. “We are making it clear to them that we expect all American citizens, third-country nationals, and all Afghans who wish to leave the country to be allowed to do so safely and without persecution,” the official said.

Sherman noted that the Taliban has obligations to the US government, according to which the movement should not interfere with the flight of Afghans from the country.

Kabul airport is currently controlled by the US military. It is the only place from which people can leave Afghanistan. The US military says that more than 5,000 people have already been evacuated from the country.
On the first day after the Taliban seized power, thousands of Afghans fled to the airport, running onto the runway and climbing onto grounded planes in the hopes of leaving the country. As a result, flights were suspended for almost a day on August 16.
On the evening of August 17, reports emerged that the Taliban had stopped allowing Afghan citizens into the airport.
As of August 18, thousands of people remain in and around the airport. The Pentagon acknowledged that the US military was forced to fire into the air to control the crowds. The Taliban also said that the movement's fighters fired warning shots, emphasizing that this was done to disperse the crowd and that they "did not want to harm anyone." There were no reports of fatalities at the airport as a result of the shooting.

US demands Taliban to allow all Afghans wishing to leave the country to enter Kabul airport