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Kristen Rouse, a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, describes the messages she and other veterans have received from Afghan interpreters who are unable find safety as the Taliban besiege the country.

Every night before bed, Anushka Sachan whips out her phone to log into an app.

Gunfire can be heard going off at the Kabul International Airport in a new video that shows people running toward the terminal. Another video shows people scrambling onto planes to escape Afghanistan as the Taliban take over. CNN cannot independently verify some of these images.

In late 2001, the rolling hills to the west of Afghanistan's Maidan Shahr were scarred with the black eruptions of high explosives, as the last few Taliban fighters were pounded by Northern Alliance artillery and American bombers. Then, as suddenly as a thunderclap, silence fell on the battlefield.

The presidential palace in Kabul has been "handed over" to the Taliban, vacated by government officials, including former President Ashraf Ghani who has fled the country. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports a Taliban member present for the "handover" spoke briefly in English to say he had formerly been held by the US in Guantanamo.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Sunday in a briefing for Senators that terrorist groups like al Qaeda could reconstitute in Afghanistan sooner than the two years defense officials had previously estimated to Congress because of the recent, rapid Taliban takeover of the country, according to a Senate aide briefed on the comments.

Flash floods across Turkey's Black Sea coast have killed 58 people, officials said Sunday.

CNN's Jake Tapper presses Secretary of State Antony Blinken on President Joe Biden's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Even before US troops depart, the Taliban has taken over more than half the provincial capitals, leading to the questions, was this inevitable, or should we not have left? Peter Bergen calls it 'an unforced error.'

It's been years since Haji and his wife have had a good night's sleep.

At least 20 people were killed and 79 injured in a fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross said on its Twitter account early on Sunday.

Comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Horatio Sanz is accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old in 2002, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday.

President Joe Biden announced the authorization of a total of 5,000 troops to Afghanistan "to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance," in a statement Saturday.

A BBC journalist working in Moscow said Saturday that she felt shocked she was being expelled from Russia and said she had been told she could never return to the country, in what her employer, the UK's public broadcaster, described as a "direct assault on media freedom."

CNN's Peter Bergen says that the collapse of the Afghan army against the Taliban was an "unforced error" by the Biden administration and predicts that President Biden will have to send a military presence back into Afghanistan.

Over the last week, the Taliban has made significant gains across Afghanistan and now control over half of the country's provincial capitals.

President Joe Biden is facing multiple August crises with Afghanistan on the verge of collapse, Covid-19 patients overwhelming hospitals in some states, persistent inflation concerns, an uncertain path forward for his sweeping infrastructure agenda and surging attempted border crossings.

Additional Australian military personnel will be deployed to enforce tighter Covid-19 restrictions in the greater Sydney area next week as the country continues to battle the highly infectious Delta variant, authorities announced Saturday.

More than 5 million residents in Japan have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to the threat of flooding and landslides, as torrential rains batter the country's southwestern tip.

Taufiq Hidayat enters the homes of the dead to claim bodies no one will touch.

At least five people have been killed and a suspect found dead after Britain's worst mass shooting in over a decade took place in Plymouth, southwest England, police have said.

A former US military base is now in the hands of the Taliban as the future of Afghanistan is unclear. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports exclusively from what remains of Combat Outpost Andar in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.

In what Canadian officials have described as "arbitrary" decisions, Chinese courts this week have handed down a harsh sentence to Michael Spavor, accused of espionage, and upheld a death sentence for Robert Schellenberg, convicted of drug smuggling in the Asian country in 2018. The decisions come as the extradition trial of the Chinese tech giant Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is entering its final stages in a Vancouver courtroom.

An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposing its security vulnerability.

The Taliban has taken control of the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, Afghan Member of Parliament Gul Ahmad Kamin told CNN on Friday, as the insurgent group continues its rapid advancement toward the capital Kabul.

Video circulated by the Taliban purports to show victory celebrations in Kandahar, Afghanistan after the militant group took control of the country's second largest city. CNN cannot independently verify Taliban claims or the authenticity of these videos.

Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States have been growing for more than a month, and at the current pace -- more than 2,500 patients added each day over the past week, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services -- the US will surpass January's record high in about a month.

Video circulated by the Taliban purports to show victory celebrations in Kandahar, Afghanistan after the militant group took control of the country's second largest city. CNN cannot independently verify Taliban claims or the authenticity of these videos.

Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests of eastern Europe.

EU countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have accused Belarus of organizing "state-sponsored" illegal migration in retaliation to state sanctions imposed by the European Union. As the number of migrants illegally crossing the Belarus border rises, neighboring EU countries are working hard to keep their borders under control. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.