President Ashraf Ghani is trying to rally a counteroffensive relying on his country's special forces, the militias of warlords and American airpower ahead of the US and NATO withdrawal at the end of the month.
Taliban fighters captured another provincial capital. The militants raised their white flags imprinted with an Islamic proclamation of faith over the city of Ghazni, just 80 miles southwest of Kabul.
As the Taliban seizes more of Afghanistan, the Biden administration is sending troops to the Kabul airport to help move U.S. Embassy staff and other Americans.