The Taliban held mock funerals today as they carried coffins draped with British, US, French and NATO flags through the streets of Afghanistan.
Celebrations began in the country after the last US troops left, marking the end of a 20-year war.
Footage that emerged today shows crowds parading through Khost, the largest city in the southeastern part of Afghanistan, with mock coffins while the Taliban’s emblem was flown above.
Huge crowds surrounded the coffins in the city, where just two weeks ago an anti-Taliban protest took place.
Thousands of people also gathered in the southern city of Kandahar, waving white Taliban flags to celebrate what they are calling "independence day".
Another clip distributed by the Taliban showed fighters entering the airport after the last US troops flew out on a C-17 aircraft a minute before midnight.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference at the airport after the departure: "It is a historical day and a historical moment.
"We are proud of these moments, that we liberated our country from a great power."
America's longest war took the lives of nearly 2,500 US troops and an estimated 240,000 Afghans, and cost some $2 trillion.
More than 123,000 people were evacuated from Kabul in a massive but chaotic airlift by the United States and its allies over the past two weeks, but many of those who helped Western nations during the war were left behind.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the number of UK nationals left behind in Afghanistan is in the "low hundreds".
The Cabinet minister said he was unable to give a "definitive" figure on how many Afghans the UK had failed to airlift to safety after the Taliban seized power.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's very difficult to give you a firm figure. I can tell you that for UK nationals we've secured since April over 5,000, and we're in the low hundreds (remaining)."
In Kabul, there was a mixture of triumph and elation on the one side as the Taliban celebrated their victory, and fear on the other.
"I had to go to the bank with my mother but when I went, the Taliban (were) beating women with sticks,'' said a 22-year-old woman who spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety.
She said the attack occurred among a crowd outside a branch of the Azizi Bank next to the Kabul Star Hotel in the centre of the capital.
"It's the first time I've seen something like that and it really frightened me."
