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Staying beyond the agreed deadline of 31 August would be ‘extending occupation’, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said on Monday, and this would ‘provoke a reaction’.The comments were made after a firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German…
After Greece finished building a 40km fence along its natural border with Turkey, the minister for citizen protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis, defended the move, saying the country could not wait for EU decisions. Amid concerns that the …
President Joe Biden, rejecting criticism of his handling of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan, has warned that the operation to evacuate thousands through Kabul airport carries risks, but promised Americans in the country that ‘we will get you ho…
Footage shows desperate crowds passing children to US soldiers in the
hope of getting them to safety at Kabul international airport. Taliban forces have set up checkpoints outside the airport, raising fears that even people with the correct documents…
In an impassioned Commons speech during the debate on Afghanistan, the Conservative MP speaks about the impact of the Taliban takeover on veterans. He criticises Joe Biden’s assertion that the Afghan army did not adequately resist the TalibanUK troops …
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has castigated the government over its reaction to events unfolding in Afghanistan, saying the prime minister’s response to the Taliban ‘arriving at the gates of Kabul’ was ‘to go on holiday’, and that the foreign secre…
‘Where is Global Britain on streets of Kabul?’: Theresa May blasts UK failure in Afghanistan – video
The former prime minister Theresa May has suggested her successor, Boris Johnson, had hoped ‘on a wing and a prayer it’d be all right on the night’ once the S and its allies had withdrawn from Afghanistan.Johnson has faced anger from MPs about the UK’s…
Afghanistan’s government collapsed as the Taliban militant group took control of all of the country’s major cities in only nine days, including Kabul, the capital of more than 4 million people.The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Emma Grah…
The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for publicly advocating education for women and girls, has said she is “deeply concerned” about the safety of those in Afghanistan.”We cannot just look at our sc…
It was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troops, Dominic Raab has said, arguing: ‘No one saw this coming.’Speaking to the media following his return from holiday, after…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on the security council to ‘use all tools at its disposal to suppress the global terrorist threat in Afghanistan’ and guarantee that basic human rights will be respected. Ashraf Ghani left&n…
Britain will use all the means at its disposal, including sanctions and diplomacy, to hold the Taliban to account in Afghanistan, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said.In his first public appearance since the crisis began, Raab said that ‘everyone was ca…
Desperate Afghans clung to the side of a moving US military plane leaving Kabul airport on Monday, with at least three people apparently falling to their deaths from the undercarriage immediately after takeoff. Video footage shows hundreds of people ru…
Desperate crowds gather at the airport as people try to escape after the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban on SundayLatest updates from Kabul Continue reading…
The UK defence secretary has admitted ‘some people will not get back’ as Britain tries to evacuate Afghan allies from Kabul, along with its own citizens, with British forces aiming to repatriate more than 1,000 people a day. Ben Wallace appeared to hol…