CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 8, 2021 18:40:00
Kunduz caps a bad 72 hours for the afghan government of the u.s. presence there over the last 20 years. hard really to understate that, phil. this is a seismic period of time and changes of territorial hands inside the country. the first major city to fall. we've seen it briefly fall to the taliban over the last six years and back then, u.s. air strikes and commandos in the afghan army would push in and keep the taliban out. they don't appear to have pulled that off in kunduz. since friday when the first provincial capital fell near the border with iran, there's been drum beats of bad news. an...