U.S. Asks Taliban to Let Americans Leave

“The Taliban’s blitz across Afghanistan pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday, as U.S. diplomats appealed to the militants to stop the advance and President Biden warned that any moves to threaten American personnel or interests would be met with ‘a swift and strong’ military response from the thousands of U.S. troops flooding into the capital,” the Washington Post reports.

CBS News: U.S. Embassy in Kabul to be evacuated within 36 hours.