The death toll from Haiti's 7.2 magnitude earthquake climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, per a statement from the Caribbean island nation's civil protection agency.
The latest: At least 2,800 people have been injured following Saturday's quake and search and rescue teams were working to find an unknown number of missing people.
The Taliban captured Bagram Air Base on Sunday and released thousands of prisoners, including many senior al Qaeda operatives.
Why it matters: The prisoners were some of the Taliban's most hardened fighters and could pose a threat not only to Afghan citizens but to American security interests.
From shuttle flights aboard armed helicopters to finding a Kevlar helmet and flak vest in a bedroom closet, my five visits to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul showed me time and again the value of the only safe haven inside that danger zone.
Why it matters: Diplomats who fled the high-walled garrison already worked in difficult conditions. Huddled at Afghanistan’s last free airport, they're even less capable of saving the nationals who helped them — or the women and businesspeople who flourished with their aid over the past 20 years.
As Taliban leaders continue to meet inside the presidential palace in Kabul and Ashraf Ghani has left the country, the U.N. Security Council has called an emergency meeting for Monday morning.
The big picture: Secretary General António Guterres is scheduled to brief the security council as Taliban leaders continue to call for an "unconditional surrender" with little remaining pushback.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told senators Sunday that a previous assessment of how soon terrorist groups will likely reconstitute in Afghanistan will speed up because of what's happening there now, according to three sources on the phone call.
Why this matters: Protecting the U.S. against terrorist threats to the homeland was an original reason for engaging the U.S. in this 20-year war.
As video emerged on Sunday of military helicopters landing near the U.S. embassy in Kabul to rapidly evacuate U.S. personnel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured: "This is manifestly not Saigon."
Driving the news: Blinken made the rounds on the Sunday shows to defend President Biden's resolute withdrawal of the U.S. military as Kabul nears complete surrender to the Taliban.
Rarely has an American president's predictions been so wrong, so fast, so convincingly as President Biden on Afghanistan. Usually military operations and diplomacy are long; the outcomes, foggy. Not here.
Flashback: Just five weeks ago, President Biden assured Americans: "[T]he likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely."
The death toll from a fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon Sunday morning climbed to at least 28 by afternoon, with 79 wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The latest: The Health Ministry declared a state of emergency Sunday to deal with the fallout from the tank explosion. The cause of the explosion remains unknown, per the Wall Street Journal.
