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We end tonight with this image. the last american soldier leaving afghanistan. it was tweeted out by the defense department a few minutes ago. it shows major general chris donahue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne americas division, the last soldier boarding the last c-17 departing kabul. which again, took off one minute before midnight on august 30th. it is -- i mean, striking image. america leaving afghanistan after two decades, four presidents, and 2,461 u.s. service members die -- dyi...

Fight. tonight, we remember their sacrifice. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. >> thank you. im chris cuomo, and welcome to primetime. lets look again at that picture of the last service member to leave afghanistan earlier today. this will be in history books. the pentagon just put it out. they say the war has ended. army major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne, boarding a c-17 to depart kabul, lifted off at 11:59 p.m. local, ju...

We end tonight with this image. the last american soldier leaving afghanistan. it was tweeted out by the defense department a few minutes ago. it shows major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne, the last soldier boarding the last c-17 departing kabul, which took off one minute before midnight on august 30th. it is a striking image. america leaving afghanistan after two decades. four presidents, and 2,461 u.s. service members dying. let me say that again because tonight...

Disappointed with that. >> heres a bit of background on the major general chris donahue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne division in this iconic almost ghostly photo, the last american soldier to leave afghanistan after nearly 20 years. general donahue was working in the pentagon on 9-11. his fourth deployment to afghanistan. he led the delta force in office a decade ago and was head of special operations forces last year. last night secretary of state an tony blinken explained who some ...

0 you dont have to take care of all of kabul to get a bigger perimeter. that should have been another option. thanks, general. we know youll be part of the continuing coverage as we move forward. the president said it was time to end this war. that is the story. stay tuned for continuing coverage here on fox of the end of the war in afghanistan. >> neil: all right. martha just said it. i was not going to extend this forever war. the president of the united states explaining why after 20 years we...

They are being checked, housed and fed. the flow of incoming refugees from kabul, slowing down. only one plane in the last 36 hours. flights out to the states ramping up. 12 planes with 2,000 on board. theres still thousands that could be targeted by the taliban. hear what some refugees told us through a security fence and hear what the commanding general said. >> you know, the taliban and isis, theyre enemies. they never change. >> family is still there. >> you worry about them? >> i do. >> wha...

0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. theres flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for "the story," august 30, 2021. the "the story" continues tomorrow. see you back here. >> neil: thank you, martha, very much. were on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more floodin...

Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 26 The general heading the Afghan Special Forces command when Kabul fell on August 15 has blamed US President Joe Biden for the sudden folding up of the Afghan

Donations of money, donations of food or clothing or furniture or even toys and school supplies for kids. what are they going to need and how will that be organized? we have already seen a lot of interest in americans here at home offering to help any way that we can. we talked to pentagon press secretary john kirby on the show earlier this week and he specifically brought this up. he told us, for example, at the military base at ft. bliss in texas, where a number of afghans are staying before t...

Of food, of clothing, or furniture, or even toys and school supplies for kids. what are they going to need and how will that be organized? we have already seen a lot of interest in americans here at home, offering to help anyway that we can. we talk to pentagon press secretary john kirby on the show next week, we specifically brought this up, he told us that the military base in texas, where a number of afghans are staying before they are permanently settled in this country, the commanding gener...