Evening Edition: Front Row Seat To The Taliban Takeover

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Reporting on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is neither easy nor safe, and journalists trying to get the story out on the struggling country still face many obstacles from a Taliban who says they have changed their ways. The situation there remains tense with Americans still stuck and hundreds of Afghans flocking to the passport office in Kabul to get the documents, while Taliban security men beat back crowds to maintain order. FOX's Eben Brown speaks to FOX's Trey Yingst who just returned from assignment in Afghanistan and shares the stories of reporting on the Taliban takeover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.8	Thursday, October 7th, 2021. I'm Evan Brown.
0:28.0	American forces have left Afghanistan, the Taliban rules it once more.
0:33.0	How does one tell a story the violent rulers don't want told?
0:37.0	The illusion that the Taliban paints for the world that they are open and new and a fresh group not like the late 90s I think that that is is
0:46.3	incorrect and I would I would cite examples of the actions they've taken
0:50.4	this is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
0:55.0	When the Taliban resumed control of Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal, the initial fear was that the
1:04.9	resumption of rule by religious extremists would prevent the flow of
1:08.5	information out of the country to the rest of the world. During their last rule in the 1990s,
1:14.0	the stories of atrocities were just that stories.
1:18.0	The oppression caused little documentation.
1:20.0	Again, this is the concern, which is why some journalists lingered and others found their way inside.
1:27.0	Yeah, we were there in the region for more than 40 days and at the end of this assignment 19 straight days on the ground in Afghanistan.
1:35.0	Fox News correspondent Trey Yinced reported from the airport in Kabul and around that nation
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