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The city. afghan commandos have agreed to take us to one of their bases. this used to be a wedding hall, now its the front line position. most of the fighting here happens at night. taliban snipers are at work 24 hours a day. from the snipers? >> yes. >> the men tell us the taliban are hiding in houses 50 yards from us. they shoot from peoples homes? >> yes. this is a civilian home. we cannot use big weapons, heavy weapons. >> up on the roof they want to show us something. >> you can see the tal...

Education secretary cardona says this extension will give people the time they need to plan and ensure a smooth pathway back to repayment. just ahead, the taliban tightens its grip on afghanistan, as the state department urges all u.s. citizens to get out now. cnn is on the ground with afghan commandos as a wedding hall is transform sed into a front line position.

Of afghanistans 34 provincial capitals are under direct threat from the taliban. three of them are under siege. and we visited one of those kandahar, its a strategically vital city for the government. its also the spiritual birthplace of the taliban. important for both sides under siege. the situation there is desperate. take a look. on the road to kandahars front line, there is still civilian traffic, even as the taliban inches deeper into the city. afghan commandos have agreed to take us to on...

Deeper into lashkar gah — the main city in helmand province — and closed in on government buildings. they were beaten back by military forces later in the day after suffering heavy casulaties from us and afghan aircraft strikes. in the west, they were pushed back from the gates of herat city as a clearance operation was launched. hundreds of commandos were deployed to help the struggling government forces keep the taliban at bay. this is one of them. translation: by using residential houses ...

The fate of these key cities depends on how long government forces stay in their posts to fight. a military spokesman tweeted: "in order to honor the bravery and sacrifices of the armed forces," "the the militants are now on the verge of overrunning the city of lashkar gar in the south, and theres fierce fighting in kandahar and herat in the west. on monday they pushed deeper into lashkar gah — the main city in helmand province — and closed in on government buildings. they were beat back by ...

Six or seven air strikes in the americans in the last month and certainly from the afghan soldiers that we spoke to, they said that it is not enough. of course afghanistan has a very m small air force and they are hoping for reinforcements and air strikes which they ever came. which meant commandos got slaughtered, troops had to surrender. and this is happening over and over again. so they say that they desperately need that u.s. air support. whether it will continue after the 31st of august whe...

Position of king, he decides thats enough. and he lets his guard down. thats when bathsheba comes into his life. >> he sees this beautiful woman having a bath and hes struck by her beauty. hes being a peeping tom. >> he knows shes the wife of one of his commandos. he admires her and he decides he has to have her. i wonder if david can take balcony moment if he would not take back that day that he saw bathsheba bathing on the

The nato forces. cia commandos, special forces, political leadership. theyl all have families. were walking away from them. theyll be left to a brutal fate. the only thing that may push back on this, afghanistan is now devolving into ethnic civil war, and the militias will re-arm and try to protect their own people. but, you know, theyre in great peril of genocide. itsri going to be an ugly coup of years coming up, if it lasts that long. >> claire mccaskill, we careen into a domestic topic youre...

Execution of 22 unarmed afghan commandos as they tried to surrender in june. this denial comes as cnn obtained not only video of what happened, but eyewitness accounts. >> five of them. but the taliban still claims its not real. before we show you the full video, its just very disturbing to see. anna coren joins us from kabul. anna, you were able to get a response. how did they respond to your reporting? >> reporter: the taliban is on a pr offensive to discredit our reporting, to say it is false...

>> reporter: yeah, look, the taliban is launching a pr offensive trying to discredit our reporting, saying that the footage is fake, that it is government propaganda. we must warn our viewers that it is extremely disturbing. take a look. as you can see, a group of commandos walking out hands in the air surrendering, and are executed seconds later. the taliban denies that this ever took place, that they have never executed soldiers who have surrendered. but cnn spoke to five eyewitnesses who conf...