CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell August 31, 2021 19:36:00
Taliban work out a cooperative governing arrangement with the afghan government but it did authorize the release of 5,000 prisoners last year, including some of the taliban top war commanders. among those, who just took control of afghanistan. by time i came to office, the taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001. controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. the previous administration agreement said that if we stuck to the may 1st deadline, the taliban wouldn't attack any american forces. if we stayed, all bets were off. we were left with a simple decision. follow th...