CNN reporter Clarissa Ward says Kabul colleague nearly pistol-whipped

The CNN producer, Brent Swails, was taking a video with a cellphone when two Taliban fighters approached him with their pistols and seemed about to strike him

Clarissa Ward described on Wednesday how a member of her CNN crew was nearly pistol-whipped by a Taliban fighter as they were covering a tumultuous scene outside the airport in Kabul. “I've covered all sorts of crazy situations,” Ms Ward said in a report that aired on CNN. “This was mayhem. This was nuts.” The network's chief international correspondent has been probably the most visible reporter covering the rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters. Perhaps inevitably, that has made her words and even her wardrobe a topic of social media conversation.