August 16, 2021

A U.S. soldier points his gun towards an Afghan passenger at the Kabul airport in Kabul as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the Taliban's hardline brand of Islamist rule.

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul.

Women with their children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In this photo released by The White House, President Joe Biden meets virtually with his national security team and senior officials for a briefing on Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021, at Camp David, Maryland.

Relatives of a Covid-19 victim transport a coffin on an auto rickshaw to a mortuary in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Residents stay outside their homes amid the fear of aftershocks in Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti.

Members of the media run as they react to tear gas during a protest over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire between Navalacruz and Riofrio near Avila, central Spain.

Youth carry Indonesian flags to commemorate 76th Indonesia's Independence Day which falls on Aug. 17, at a mountain of garbage in Banda Aceh.