Evening Edition: Chaos In Kabul As The Taliban Takes Afghan Capital

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The airport in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul has become the center of desperation for both Americans and their Afghan counterparts trying to flee the country which has fallen to the Taliban. This as President Biden authorizes 6,000 more troops to help the tens of thousands that are trying to flee. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks to FOX's Pentagon Correspondent Lucas Tomlinson about the current crisis at the airport and what is now the military mission there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Monday August 16th 2021
0:41.0	I'm Trey Yanks
0:42.0	the Taliban declared victory overnight in Afghanistan after taking
0:46.4	the capital of Kabul.
0:48.1	They took Kabul in a day, and they didn't have to fight their way in. They walked in.
0:52.7	In fact, they pretty much walked into all 34 of Afghanistan's
0:57.1	provincial capitals and took the country without much of a fight.
1:00.5	This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
1:05.0	The images out of Afghanistan this morning show complete desperation.
1:12.0	Thousands of Afghans chasing down U.S. military planes that are evacuating people from Kabul.
1:17.0	Video circulating online show two young men falling to their deaths.
1:21.0	They had been clinging to the side of one aircraft. At least seven people
1:24.6	have been killed so far amid the chaos at Kabul's airport. This as Taliban fighters
1:29.9	Rome the capital city. Ten days ago the Taliban had not conquered any of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals.
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