one that s undermining national security. those are tools that i think i could apply in a lot of different ways either to advance national security to advocate for public service, to advocate for good november gans and while i m reluctant to be in this space no, lieutenant colonel wishes to be in the limelight. there s a day i wish i could be some good. rachel, on the other hand. your wife. i m not sure she s ready for that. so she ll probably be the decision maker on that point. you talked her into, you know, an interesting life through the army. we ll see if maybe that pans out as well. alexander vindman, thanks for being with us. thank you. another bomb blast in afghanistan overnight as the taliban advances. cnn s clarissa ward is live on the ground in kabul. plus, unruly passenger taped to his seat after allegedly groping and assaulting flight
began its withdrawal of u.s. troops back in may, but relative calm here in kabul. that s now over. another explosion this morning, john. nobody killed but two people injured and definite ly people n high alert, tense. we heard something extraordinary in the aftermath of yesterday night s attack, you heard people all across the city coming out on to their balconies, on to the streets and chanting, it means god is the greatest but they were chanting it really in defiance of the taliban. in support of the security forces tremendously challenged by the onslaught of the militants, john. almost all u.s. forces out at this point, clarissa, but there still a presence at the embassy. will kabul hold? reporter: that s the million dollar question and got everybody concerned because no one could have predicted how
Stunning advances by Taliban insurgents this summer amid an ongoing U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan threaten to unwind a fragile security structure built through years of military toil in a matter of weeks, raising renewed questions about the conflict’s cost in dollars and American lives.
INTERNATIONAL - "Il n'y aura aucun contact politique, il n'y aura aucune connivence de quelque sorte que ce soit avec le régime taliban", assure Clément Beaune, secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères Jean-Yves Le Drian. Suivez les dernières informations.
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