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Forces. our task was to protect the embassy. in order for the embassy personnel to continue to function with their services and all that. if we were to keep bagram and the embassy going, that would be a significant number of forces that would exceeded what we had. so had to collapse one or the other. a decision made from centcom and the commander on the ground to collapse bagram. that was all briefed and approved. we estimated the risk of going out of bagram about the same as kia. so kia was the...

News that theres warnings of a rapid collapse. i have previously said from this podium and in sworn testimony before congress that the intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios were possible. one of those was an outright taliban takeover following a rapid collapse of the afghan security forces and the government. another was a civil war. a third was a negotiated settlement. however, the time frame of a rapid collapse was widely estimated and ranged from weeks to months to years following...

A rapid collapse. i have previously said from this podium and in sworn testimony before congress that the intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios were responsible. one of those was an outright taliban takeover following a rapid collapse of the afghan security forces and the government. another was a civil war. and a third was a negotiated settlement. however, the time frame of a rapid collapse, that was widely estimated and ranged from weeks to months and ten years following our depart...

General milley would not comments on that. any indication that that is an option that is considered to give them more resources to evacuate people over the next 12 to 13 days? >> general mark milley did address the considerations and what they decided to secure. he said look, there was basically a decision between securing bagram air base and securing the embassy with a finite number of u.s. troops. and that decision was made by u.s. central command, commander general mckenzie, as well as the co...

0 readout on that and also if they discussed the regional implications with respect to china and russia and how they are seizing on this the withdrawal. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich. thanks for joining us. >> martha: thank you. good afternoon. im martha maccallum in new york. breaking moments from now, for the first time, we will hear from our two top generals. mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs and lloyd austin, the secretary of defense who reportedly advised the president against a co...

El Pentágono informó previamente que hubo dos incidentes en el aeropuerto en los que las fuerzas de EE.UU. tuvieron que abrir fuego ante amenazas hostiles y causaron la muerte de dos asaltantes.

The comments are the first on governance from a federal level after the groups blitz across the country.

The comments are the first on governance from a federal level after the groups blitz across the country.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and...

Many residents in Kabul have stayed home and remain fearful after the insurgents’ takeover saw prisons emptied and armouries looted.