Taliban fighters have entered Kabul, the BBC reports, and Afghanistan's president has fled the country. A surrender is reportedly being negotiated to avoid a bloody fight for the capital. Al Arabiya reports that the Taliban are already working on forming an interim government.
The U.S. and U.K. are sending troops to evacuate nationals (and Afghans who worked for western forces during the 20-year occupation) but the 2 trillion-dollar Afghanistan they built collapsed faster than the media cycle can keep track of. President Joe Biden only approved the deployment on Saturday and Boris Johnson's government in London seems stuck on a days-old "to be sent" statement.
