The Biden administration is preparing for the fall of Kabul as the Taliban gains ground across much of Afghanistan. CBS News has confirmed that most U.S. Embassy employees, except a small handful of personnel, are expected to be evacuated within the next 72 hours. CBS News foreign correspondent Roxana Saberi joins CBSN from Afghanistan's capital with the latest.
Biden in July was adamant that the situation in Afghanistan was nothing like Vietnam and the US wouldn't see anything there like the fall of Saigon.
Medal of honor recipient, retired Colonel Jack Jacobs, and Defense One Executive Editor, Kevin Baron, joined Garrett Haake to discuss breaking developments in Afghanistan as the Taliban gains ground in major cities and provincial capitals around the country. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent, Peter Baker, breaks down how the Biden administration is responding.
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The United Nations refugee agency is warning of a spiraling humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the Taliban nears recapturing the state.Driving the news: "The United Nations Assistance Mission has warned that without a significant de-escalation in violence, Afghanistan is on course to witness the highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since the U.N.’s records began," according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.Get market news worthy of your time
The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan’s south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to Kabul just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war.
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A series of photos published last month by Chinese state media of Foreign Minister Wang Yi standing shoulder to shoulder with visiting Taliban official decked out in traditional tunic and turban raised eyebrows on the country's social media. Since then, China's propaganda machinery has quietly begun preparing its people to accept an increasingly likely scenario that Beijing might have to recognize the Taliban, the hard line Islamist movement that is rapidly gaining territory in Afghanistan, as a legitimate regime. "Even if they can't control the whole country, they would still be a significant force to reckon with", an influential social media commentator known to be familiar with China's foreign policy thinking wrote on Thursday.
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