カテゴリー: Taliban
Warnings from senior diplomat that staying past deadline next week would cross ‘red line’Britain has begun a last-ditch scramble to get people out of Kabul amid warnings from the senior diplomat on the ground that staying past the 31 August deadline ma…
World Food Programme calls for urgent aid as chaos of Taliban takeover and second drought in three years create dire humanitarian situationUN agencies have warned of food shortages to Afghanistan as early as September without urgent aid funding, as it …
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…
Latest updates: German foreign minister in talks over non-military flights after Taliban says no to foreign troops in the country after 31 AugustUK scrambles to complete Kabul airlift after warning about TalibanAfghanistan could start to run out of foo…
The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 invasionImbecilic, tragic, dangerous and unnecessary are the words used by Tony Blair to describe the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and Bri…
Some of the workers were refused visas on technicalities such as being contractors rather than direct employees, or not applying in timeGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDozens of Afghan nationals who worked with Australia in Afghani…
Militants say that forces must leave by 31 August, after Afghan guard is killed and three wounded in gun battle at Kabul airportThe Taliban have warned that there will be “consequences” if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops …
Defence secretary says British evacuation effort cannot continue once US troops leave KabulThe British effort to evacuate people by air from Kabul is “down to hours now, not weeks”, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said.He admitted there was no …
President defends US exit but makes changes to airlift effort at Kabul airport after criticism over deaths and chaotic scenes Civil war ‘unavoidable’ if Taliban won’t talk – opposition leaderThe evacuation of thousands of Americans and their Afghan all…
Ministers are becoming openly critical of Joe Biden after being left in the dark about major decisionsSo much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relatio…
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders’ summit, No 10 has said, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August, after a week…
Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.“There w…
Medics helped deliver a baby girl in cargo bay after the aircraft landed at Ramstein airbase in GermanyAn Afghan woman gave birth on board a US evacuation plane on Saturday, moments after landing at Ramstein airbase in Germany, the US air force said.Th…
Employees of private companies G4S and GardaWorld say they were rejected for UK relocation programmeHundreds of Afghans employed by G4S to guard the British embassy until last year fear they will be killed by the Taliban after being abandoned by the Br…
Experts warn of hyperinflation and growing poverty, with money transfers from abroad suspended Afghanistan is facing a potentially catastrophic perfect storm of bank closures and shortages of hard currency on top of the suspension of money transfers by…