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The last U.S. flight out of Kabul took off a minute before midnight local time Monday (3:29 pm ET), capping a bloody and chaotic The Taliban, who are still forming their government and naming ministers, said Afghanistan was declaring its "independence," according to their spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid. Taliban Badri special force fighters arrive at the airport in Kabul on Tuesday, after the U.S. pulled all its troops out of the country. Wakil Koshar / AFP - Getty Images In the next hours, the Taliban entered the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to find abandoned military equipment left inoperable by the United States. Taliban leaders, flanked by the insurgents’ elite Badri unit, surveyed the airport. They found fighter jets, helicopters and cars all gutted. Litter was strewn across the ground around military aircraft riddled with visible holes or stripped back to their inner workings. The Pentagon has said it made weapons and military equipment inoperable before they left, but didn’t destroy the airport so the Taliban-run government can use it. The U.S. hopes it will be a way out for Americans and at-risk Afghans who want to leave, but it's unclear how long it will take the group to get the airport back up and running. More than 120,000 people were safely flown out of Afghanistan during the chaotic 18-day evacuation operation in Kabul, including around 6,000 Americans, “What we achieved today is the result of the blood of thousands of mujahedeen, loyalty, patien...