The Irish Government has been urged to welcome up to 2,000 refugees from the country.
More than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul - the capital of Afghanistan - in the last five days, with officials insisting efforts will double this weekend.
Nato says Afghan and foreign nationals are continuing to surround the city's airport - desperate to flee Taliban control.
Protesters in opposition to the Taliban's claim on Afghanistan paraded the national flag through the streets of Kabul on the anniversary of freedom from British control. https://t.co/gTEtmJuoJk pic.twitter.com/tAmCllM6H9
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Amnesty International has released detailed 'killings' it claims militants carried out, last month
This man - a British citizen with the right paperwork - is among them.
Rohullah Yakobi fled from Taliban persecution in 1999 - and says he knows what is at stake.
Families are becoming so desperate, more young children are being passed over barbed-wire to get to soldiers.
UNICEF's Samantha Mort is in Kabul, she says people there need help:.
Three Irish nationals exit Afghanistan, while number of those awaiting exit is now 36, says Coveney via @IrishTimesWorld https://t.co/vjVmZ92aAV
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Here at home, the Government has been urged to welcome up to 2,000 refugees from Afghanisan...over ten times the amount it has promised.
The call came from the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland.
Earlier this week the Government said up to 195 people will be able to come to the country, with full refugees status.
Bulelani Mfaco from the organisation - says at least they won't have to enter direct provision.
Three more Irish citizens have been safely evacuated from Afghanistan.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says there are still 35 people looking to board flights out of the country.
It hopes to facilitate more evacuations over the coming days, but warned that access to Kabul airport remains extremely difficult.
The United Nations is warning that the Afghans most at danger since the Taliban takeover have "no clear way out" of the country.
