As the United States continued its pullout from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden said US troops could stay longer in the country to ensure all Americans leave the country.

'I don't know how that happens': President Biden says there was no way to withdraw from Afghanistan without 'chaos ensuing'

Amid reports of women protesting in Kabul as the Taliban took control of the capital, pictures surfaced of a beauty saloon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul.

See pics: Women's poster defaced in Kabul as Taliban consolidates hold over Afghanistan

How US strategy crumbled in Afghanistan as Biden's approval ratings dive

As the Taliban consolidated its position in Kabul, the group said its leaders and co-founder, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, had returned to Afghanistan. Baradar, who is the chief of the Taliban's political office, arrived in Kandahar.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar: Released from Pak prison earlier, Taliban co-founder is back in Afghanistan

Life under Taliban in Kabul & the Pakistan connection

A day after announcing a nationwide lockdown, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern warned that the coronavirus outbreak may grow in the country. New Zealand had reported the first case of community transfer of the virus on Tuesday in Auckland as health officials began their investigations.

'Delta poses a greater threat': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern defends lockdown call

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered a snap three-day lockdown in New Zealand after the country recorded the first case of locally transmitted coronavirus case in six months.

New Zealand PM Ardern orders snap three-day national lockdown after virus case

According to National Centre for Seismology, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan's Fayzabad area on Tuesday morning. The quake reportedly took place at 6:08am(local time) in northeast Afghanistan.

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan's Fayzabad

As the Taliban set up checkpoints at Kabul, people flooded the Hamid Karzai international airport as reports claimed people clung to the top of aircraft to get out of Afganistan.

640 Afghans in US cargo plane; Afghans fall off flying plane in desperate attempt to flee Taliban - Watch

A day after the Taliban took control of Kabul, videos appearing to show Taliban militants atop crashing cars have gone went viral on social media. A Taliban militant was purportedly seen with a gun while sitting on the bumper car.

WATCH : Fun amid chaos - Taliban fighters ride in bumper cars with guns; ride horses in merry-go-round in Kabul- Watch

As chaotic scenes at Kabul airport on Monday went viral across the world, satellite images showed thousands of Afghans attempting to board flights in a desperate bid to flee the capital as the Taliban took control of Kabul.

WATCH - Satellite images show chaos at Kabul airport after Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

Inside pictures of plane at Kabul airport as Afghans battle to flee Taliban rule

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