This Kabul News Today

The blast came hours after US President Joe Biden warned that another attack in the airport area was highly likely.

Absolutely. so, they were -- this is the military. they always have -- they have contingencies for everything. there has been a real concern. because of that, they have stepped up security around those gates. thats actually -- we heard about these bottlenecks and people having such a hard time getting through. part of that is due to the fact that theyre trying to limit the crowds outside the gate and inside the airport. but a big part of that is because of the security concern. they have been ve...

I do plan to be back. i will be there. steve: pete griswold where are you right now? pete: this is my parents backyard. we dropped off the rv. we are heading back today. will: i will see you in the morning. pete: looking forward to it, see you guys. ainsley: bye. steve: next up head to upstate new york where lawrence jones is having breakfast with friends near a diner near fort drum where the topic, lawrence, is kabul, afghanistan. >> you know, we were expecting, guys, to talk about cuomo and a ...

There are taliban checkpoints within a hundred meters of u.s. marines, and youre right, theyre beating people in the crowds. i had a friend in the crowd who got beaten by taliban soldiers with chains. and the americans just have to stabbe stand there and do nothing. the americans are being forced to use tear gas, to fire warning shots. by the way, every time i hear that gunfire go off, all i think of is those bullets have to come down somewhere. people could be inadvertently being killed by the ...

अफगानिस्तान से अमेरिकी सेना की रवानगी के बाद तालिबान अफगानिस्तान की सत्ता पर काबिज हो चुका है. क्या काबुल, क्या राष्ट्रपति भवन हर जगह तालिबान ही तालिबान है.

Are in taliban control and only one major city is not and that major city is kabul. joining me from there because you are going to find this man in a place where everybody else has left in many cases is my colleague richard engel. he is there now. richard, it is a confusing story from there. we have conflicting information where the taliban is, who is negotiating and where the president of afghanistan is and where control lies. tell us what you see. >> well, after 20 years of u.s. military prese...

To get in there. lets reset. it is sunday, august 15th.h. im ali velshi. as you can see, we are following breaking news out of afghanistan where the taliban is on the brink of taking over the entire country. the group is closing in on the capital city of kabul. thisf map just in the last six hours is out of date. the dark orange areas are areas now controlled by taliban.ll they are closing in on the last major city they do not control, that is kabul. after capturing a series of cities all over...

0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, its important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. >> yeah. >> the current pl...

0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. >> were sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, "velshi" starts right now. im ali velshi, were departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we ha...

Activating their forces. the americans trained 350,000 people to fight the taliban. so, you would hope you would be seeing more success than youre seeing right now. let me give you a picture of it all right. this is kabul, the capitol right here. this is all afghanistan. the orange area is stuff thats taliban controlled. the beige is contested. the white is government. so you can see theres very little government control. now on this side, this is all iran over here. this is all the former sovie...