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The Afghan television anchor Beheshta Arghand has been evacuated from Afghanistan amid risks for her safety and freedom after interviewing a Taliban official live on air after the fall of Kabul in late August. Arghand, who is now in Qatar, said sh…
Taliban soldiers inspected damaged aircraft and equipment at Kabul airport after the last US troops withdrew from a shattered Afghanistan. US troops destroyed more than 70 aircraft and dozens of armoured vehicles before they left. A day after thei…
Celebratory shots rang out in Kabul as the United States completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, ending 20 years of war that culminated in the militant Taliban’s return to power. Footage from inside the city in the early hours of …
The Pentagon has said it is investigating reports of civilian casualties from a drone strike on Sunday in Kabul, but is ‘not in a position to dispute’ accounts from the scene of nine people from one family being killed, including seven children.US…
Several rockets were fired at Kabul airport on Monday, less than 48 hours before the United States is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Eyewitnesses said the rockets were launched from a car and were aimed towards the airport …
US forces have launched a ‘defensive’ military strike in Kabul against a vehicle carrying ‘multiple suicide bombers’ from the Islamic State’s local affiliate in Afghanistan who were aiming to attack the airport, American officials have said.T…
The British ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, said it was ‘time to close this phase’ of the evacuation effort, after the final UK flight for Afghan nationals left Kabul airport. About 14,000 people have been airlifted out of the country by…
The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, underlined Joe Biden’s comments on Thursday’s attack on Kabul airport, saying: ‘I think he made it clear he doesn’t want them to live on planet Earth any more.’Biden’s national security team has warned him th…
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand was ending further flights into Kabul, due to the continuing threat of terrorist attacks. The announcement followed an attack at the airport on Thursday that killed least 60 Afghans and…
Gen Kenneth F McKenzie confirmed the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) had taken responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks at Kabul’s airport and the US would take action against those behind it.Two suicide bombs exploded near the main entr…
Two suicide bombs exploded near the main entrances to Kabul airport on Thursday, reportedly killing at least 60 people, including children. Footage filmed after the blast shows what appears to be smoke rising from the airport and an eyewitness sai…
The German defence minister warned of a very concrete risk of attacks at Kabul airport hours before at least one explosion near Abbey gate, an entrance to the Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul.Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer warned on Thursday mor…
The Pentagon has responded to the unexpected arrival of two US Congress members in Kabul airport, in what the congressmen claimed was a fact-finding mission but critics have dismissed as grandstanding. “They certainly took time away from what…
Joe Biden says the US is ‘on pace’ to finish its Afghanistan evacuation efforts by 31 August, despite pleas of domestic and international allies to keep troops on the ground. The president cited a growing terrorist threat as a reason to continue its ma…
A Taliban spokesperson has said in a press conference that the 31 August deadline for US evacuations from the country will remain, adding the Taliban are “not in favour” of allowing skilled Afghans to leave the country and would regard a delay in US wi…