Scenes from Afghanistan today: See inside a Kabul hospital, and footage from another day of waiting at the airport.

Members of the Taliban and their supporters attended a public event on Monday in Kabul put on by the group’s Preaching and Guidance Commission. At the event, the Taliban’s Minister of Culture and Information, Zabiullah Mujahid, addressed a crowd.

The event was an early demonstration of the central role religion will play under Taliban rule, and another move by the new regime to display its dominance since declaring an Islamic Emirate.

Separately, video footage from Monday showed a Taliban member speaking to a crowd in Kabul, delivering remarks that may similarly offer clues about how the group will try to persuade Afghans to back them in the days ahead.

Garbage bins overflowing with destroyed equipment. Smashed computer parts scattered across the ground. Diplomatic workers burning documents.

Videos and photos taken by several U.S. government contractors and posted to social media, and verified and analyzed by The New York Times, reveal the chaos as Americans rushed to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Kabul early last week as the Taliban swept into the city.

The violence and chaos that erupted in Kabul in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover, spurring protests and a wave of people trying to flee the country, injured an untold number of Afghans. Some of them have wound up in a nearby hospital for treatment, like this one run by the nongovernmental organization EMERGENCY.

Many of the victims in the wards of this Kabul-area hospital had been shot, and were recovering from gunshot wounds.

Photos by Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times. Text by Matt Stevens.

The area around the airport has been a flash point for violence and has become a symbol of the hasty effort to evacuate thousands of people from Afghanistan very rapidly.

That violence continued apace on Monday. A member of the Afghan security forces died in a firefight with unidentified attackers, according to the German military, which also said that three other members of the Afghan forces were wounded in the skirmish outside the airport’s North Gate.

Around the airport, groups of Afghans sat on the hardened ground, seemingly resigned, at least for the moment, to another day of waiting.

In the days since the Taliban seized control of Kabul, signs of resistance among Afghans have emerged in pockets north of the capital.

Afghan soldiers — sometimes with the aid of villagers — have mounted armed challenges to the Taliban and in some cases successfully driven militants out of districts, according to former Afghan officials. But even Afghans sympathetic to the effort have expressed deep doubts about its prospects to roll back Taliban control.

An analysis of satellite imagery by The New York Times confirmed a buildup of military equipment in Panjshir, which includes a strategic valley that two decades ago held out against the militants. By some estimates, thousands of Afghan soldiers fled to the province following the latest Taliban takeover.

U.S.-allied forces continued working on Monday at the airport in Kabul, which for days has been a chaotic and sometimes dangerous choke point for those wishing to flee Afghanistan.

British and Canadian soldiers stood guard near a canal as Afghans waited outside the airport, while some helped Afghans climb up on the wall of a canal.

The leaders of the Group of 7 nations are expected to hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation on the ground as violent clashes aggravate the already precarious security situation.

American officials have said at least a dozen countries have been or will be used as brief transit stops for U.S. military flights out of Afghanistan and roughly the same number have pledged to help resettle Afghans.

Photos by Wakil Kohsar/Afp – Getty Images. Text by Matt Stevens.

A young man sells Taliban flags at the roundabout outside the vacated U.S. embassy in Kabul, one week after the Taliban seized control of the city and American personnel were evacuated from the compound.

A pastel pink and blue mural displaying smiling girls serves as the backdrop. Dari script written on the wall reads: “I am the future of Afghanistan.”

During an earlier era of Taliban rule, officials barred women from working outside the home or leaving the house without a male guardian, eliminated schooling for girls and publicly flogged those who violated the group’s morality code. Since the U.S. ousted the Taliban roughly two decades ago, women and girls have rejoined society in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

Videos from Kabul airport on Saturday showed scores of injuries and adults passed out as Afghans clamored to be evacuated from Afghanistan.

The video clips, which are believed to have been recorded sometime Saturday morning, suggest that almost a week after the Taliban seized control of Kabul, conditions near the airport are not improving and may be worsening.

Some of the thousands of people who have fled Afghanistan in recent days after its takeover by the Taliban have begun arriving in countries across the world that have pledged to help the massive evacuation effort. In some cases, countries are serving as safe if temporary transit stops. In other cases, they are permanent resettlement locations for refugees.

Videos from The Associated Press and Reuters show an airplane touching down in the dark of night at the Royal Air Force base in Brize Norton, England, and passengers getting off the plane. At a U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany, videos showed riders getting off a bus late Friday and having their temperatures taken as they exited. And in Perth, Australia, the same evening, families and their children could be seen lugging their belongings wearily into a hotel after a long journey.

Over the past several days, the evacuation of foreigners and vulnerable Afghans from Kabul has evolved into a global effort. Top American officials have said that 12 countries have been or will be acting as brief transit stops for U.S. military flights out of Afghanistan and 13 countries have pledged to help resettle Afghans.

They have said that since the airlift operation began last Sunday out of Kabul, 17,000 people have been evacuated, including 2,500 Americans.

Text by Matt Stevens.

Afghans headed to shops and markets on Saturday morning nearly a week after the Taliban took control of the capital.

Just a short distance from the airport where thousands of people have descended in desperate attempts to flee the country, street vendors laid out sliced melon that sweated under the warm sun. Shoppers packed into busy thoroughfares, huddled under umbrellas and inspected the merchandise.

Afghanistan’s economy faces significant challenges as the Taliban sweeps into power. The country has leaned for two decades on foreign aid that now accounts for nearly half its legal economy. Afghans are also grappling with food insecurity, and a drought threatens to exacerbate the food supply issues.

Even as scenes of chaos and desperation have unfolded outside Kabul’s airport, just seven kilometers away, players on the Afghan national cricket team are continuing to train at their home stadium.

As recently as Wednesday, the country’s cricket board posted pictures on Facebook of players stretching, and photos taken on Saturday showed bowlers hurling balls at waiting batsmen.

In the days since the Taliban took over Kabul, different pockets of the city have at times felt worlds apart. Near the airport, thousands of Afghans and Americans have been clamoring amid sometimes violent chaos to leave the country. But elsewhere, there are signs of the hum of daily life.

The Afghan national team was training for a three-match series against Pakistan that is scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka next month.

Night falls in Kabul, ending a week that saw the Taliban sweep into Kabul, re-establishing their rule nearly 20 years to the day after the first shots were fired of the American-led invasion that drove them from power.

What happens next is anybody’s guess: Have the Taliban tempered the brutality that defined so much about their last turn in power, or will they unleash a bloody campaign of retribution against anyone associated with the old regime? When they promise to respect women’s rights within the strictures of Islamic law, what does that mean?

For now, the vast majority of Afghans wait. They have no money to leave, and nowhere to go even if they did. Those with the means are doing anything they can to flee, braving Taliban checkpoints to reach the last redoubt of American-backed rule in Afghanistan, Kabul’s international airport. Some are organizing a resistance force in the mountains north of Kabul. Others are on the run, hiding as the Taliban hunt for them.

Photos by The New York Times. Text by Matthew Rosenberg.

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The few square miles that encompass Kabul’s airport and its environs had by Friday settled into a tale of two cities: At the airport, American-led forces are firmly in control and trying to keep evacuations moving, packing whoever they can onto flights out. On the streets, the Taliban reign, wielding clubs and whips and, at times, opening fire to keep control as thousands of people swarm the airport, desperate to get out.

Photos by The New York Times and Afp – Getty Images. Videos by The Associated Press and Reuters. Text by Matthew Rosenberg.

Scenes that would have been unthinkable only a week ago continued unfolding on Friday across Kabul nearly as quickly as the Taliban swept through Afghanistan.

Khalil Haqqani, a leader of one of the most powerful and violent Taliban factions, appeared at Friday prayers, the high point in the Islamic week. Mr. Haqqani, 48, is on both the U.S. and United Nations terrorist lists. Along with several members of the family, he is now playing a prominent role in the new Taliban regime.

Backed by Pakistan’s intelligence service, the Haqqani network, as his family’s faction is known, has long been one of the Taliban’s most effective and violent branches, responsible for kidnapping Americans, launching complex suicide attacks and conducting targeted assassinations. To a great many Afghans and foreigners who have followed the war, Mr. Haqqani’s emergence in the capital was a stark reminder of who now runs Afghanistan. Driving home that point, Mr. Haqqani showed up carrying an American-made M4 rifle and was accompanied by a security detail dressed in high-end American gear that had been supplied to Afghan commandos.

Photos by Jim Huylebroek and Victor J. Blue for The New York Times. Text by Matthew Rosenberg.

Amid the clatter of gunshots, panicked Afghans and foreigners continued to swarm Kabul’s international airport Thursday, desperately trying to get aboard evacuation flights to safety. The Taliban beat and harassed people struggling to reach the military airport, where 7,000 Americans and other evacuees have been flown out of Afghanistan since Aug. 14, the Pentagon said. There was continued chaos as gunmen manhandled people and fired into the air.

The Pentagon said Thursday that 5,200 U.S. troops were on the ground and that multiple airport gates were now open. The State Department said 6,000 people had been processed inside the facility and were awaiting flights.

Photographs by The New York Times. Video by Mirwais Khan Amiri for Reuters and The Associated Press. Text by David Zucchino.