Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved sending 1,000 additional troops to the country for a total of 6,000. More than double that were on the ground when the drawdown started. All day, americans have been ferried aboard choppers. Those that havent made it to safety yet are being told to shelter in place. The afghan president has already fled the country. Other afghans are trying to do the same right now. Theyre filling up their cars and lining up at banks to grab any cash that they can before fleeing. The u. S. Embassy is shuttered, and were told the American Flag has been lowered and removed. It will likely be replaced with a taliban banner in the coming days, a humiliating symbol of two decades of american and Coalition Sacrifice that now appear to have been in vain. Security editor for us, nick paton walsh, is live In Kabul, nick, we just learned that the president ial palace was officially handed over to the taliban. Just remarkable images coming in all day long of this transfer of po
And the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban. We trained with modern equipment over 300,000 afghan forces. Theyve got to fight for themselves. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom on this sunday evening. Afghanistan has fallen. As americans scramble to get out, more are heading in. A short time ago the pentagon approved sending another 1,000 troops because of the worsening security conditions. In all, a total of 6,000 american Service Members are now being deployed. It has been a day of breathtaking developments and heart wrenching images. The crowd you see in this Social Media post, believed to be americans and their allies at the kabul airport, waiting to board planes and leave the country. Scenes of complete chaos as people clamor to be evacuated. Americas longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. Take a look at this. Al Jazeera Video showing victorious taliban fighters laying claim to the president ial palace. They swept
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