The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan continues following the collapse of the Afghan government in August. A Taliban spokesperson says they want all foreign evacuations to be completed by August 31 and they will accept “no extensions” to the deadline.
Further in a mountain valley north of Kabul, the last remnants of Afghanistan's shattered security forces have vowed to resist the Taliban in a remote region that has defied conquerors before. But any attempt to reenact that history could end in tragedy.
International Correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team were reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, when they were confronted by armed Taliban fighters on Wednesday.
The team was near the airport, surrounded by desperate Afghans and their families hoping to escape on an evacuation flight, and Taliban fighters firing shots in an attempt to control the crowd.
"We had Taliban fighters all around approaching us, one man shouting at me to cover my face or he wouldn't talk to me," Ward told CNN after the incident,.
The team also spotted a man “carrying this huge makeshift whip -- it was a bicycle lock that had basically been split in two, so the heavy metal padlock was in the middle," she said. "And he’s just using it to just get anybody out of his way who gets in his way.”
At one point, a Taliban fighter took the safety off his AK-47 assault rifle and pushed through the crowd, gun lifted into the air as if he were about to begin firing.
In the UK Hull City preparing for Saturdays footie, Church still closed, little contact between parishioners. Weathers been humid, still pretty hot, nights are closing in with chill in the lat summer air. Fairs got extension until September 5th, prices in hotels are higher then normal as Stay-cation carry's on. . . .
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