"We will hunt you down": Biden vows retribution after Kabul attacks
"We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down, and make you pay," he said of the perpetrators of the Kabul attack.
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"We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down, and make you pay," he said of the perpetrators of the Kabul attack.
"I took her to the hospital, but she died on my hands," the man said. "I tried. I did my best to help her."
Americans outside the airport urged to "leave immediately," as Britain says there's "very credible reporting of an imminent attack" by the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan.
Asked by CBS News' Roxana Saberi about reports of violence, Suhail Shaheen insists it's just "bandits," and says women are "already" enjoying freedoms under Taliban rule.
Roughly 19,000 people were airlifted from Kabul over a 24-hour period beginning early Tuesday morning.
Representatives Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer, both Iraq War veterans, made a stealth visit to the Hamid Karzai International Airport as the U.S. evacuates Americans and Afghan allies.
"Our commitment in this country and our involvement in this country doesn't end on that date," said Ross Wilson, the acting U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
At Ramstein Air Base, the U.S. military is doing its best to feed, care for and entertain thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan.
The meeting was the group's highest-level encounter with the Biden administration since the fall of the Afghan capital.
Roughly 21,600 people were evacuated over a 24-hour period beginning early Monday morning.
The move will allow the U.S. government to authorize the entry of certain vulnerable Afghans, including those who helped American forces but whose visa applications remain pending.
Afghan workers who helped CBS News, and their family members, were safely in Qatar as of Tuesday morning.
G-7 leaders held a virtual meeting amid growing doubts that the U.S. and other Western allies will be able to safely evacuate all of their citizens and Afghan allies by month's end.
38-year-old Danish Siddiqui, whom Reuters called a "star photojournalist," was reportedly first injured by shrapnel from a rocket.
The flag was carried during the Paralympics opening ceremony after Afghanistan's athletes couldn't travel to Tokyo.
President Biden said in remarks on Sunday that the hope is not to extend the deadline and to have completed the operation by then but there are ongoing discussions about whether to extend.
U.S. airmen helped deliver the baby after it landed at a German air base.
Biden's "hope" is to have the frantic evacuation effort complete and U.S. troops out by August 31, and the Taliban says any delay will have "consequences."
Harris' visit to Singapore was meant to signal the U.S.' staunch commitment to regional partners in the face of a rising China, but chaos in Kabul is marring America's image as a reliable ally.
The girls attended a special leadership school in Kabul sponsored by the government of Qatar.
Mr. Biden spoke from the White House after canceling plans to spend the weekend in Delaware.
"This was a complete and total surrender," Haley said.
Blinken said the Biden administration has been communicating directly with U.S. citizens in Afghanistan to help guide them on the best way to get to the airport in Kabul.
Retired Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who was severely injured by an IED during his third tour in Afghanistan, sums up the contributions and sacrifices of American and NATO forces in the country over the past two decades: We did good.
The rapid takeover of Kabul by Taliban fighters, who surged past Afghan security forces and routed the sitting government, shocked the world, most especially the U.S., which saw 20 years' investment of blood and treasure collapse in a matter of days.