カテゴリー: Taliban
UK foreign secretary claims swift collapse was impossible to predict, as he says evacuations have resumedAfghanistan – latest updatesIt was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troo…
Amir Khan Muttaqi negotiates with political figures in the capital aimed at building an ‘inclusive Afghan government’Afghanistan – latest updates Flights have resumed from Kabul airport after being paused for hours due to large crowds, as senior Taliba…
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…
I was one of many who thought, in the wake of 9/11, that “something must be done”. We have learned a bitter lessonHere ends the west’s grotesque delusion that it could use its military might to turn Afghanistan into a stable democracy, a shining path o…
Analysis: Difficult to predict how China will deal with its volatile neighbour, but Uyghur issue could prove contentious The US’s hasty departure from Afghanistan has provided much material for China’s propaganda agencies to discredit Washington’s fore…
Hundreds of people crammed into a US carrier in a desperate attempt to escape Kabul after Taliban forces took control of the capitalAfghanistan – latest updatesDefiant Biden stands ‘squarely behind’ decision to withdraw An extraordinary image has emerg…
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…
In the Afghan capital women stayed home in fear of being beaten by the Taliban for not covering themselvesAfghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flightsThe streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rul…
A reckless western withdrawal timetable has let a people downEarlier this year, a bipartisan panel appointed by the US Congress advised against the “precipitous withdrawal” of American troops from Afghanistan. The panel warned of grave consequences if …
Analysis: Joe Biden and Boris Johnson five weeks ago claimed Afghan government would not fall so easilyDesperate crowds at Kabul airport as Afghans try to escape Taliban – latest updatesJoe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afgha…
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…
Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at Kabul airport trying to get a place on a flight out of the country, amid chaotic scenes that unfolded as the Taliban took control of the city. Fearful that the Taliban…
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 Taliban has declared that Afghanistan is under their control after they took over the presidential palace just hours after president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Islamist militants encountered no resistance as they took back power t…
The 72-year-old, an anthropologist, had an uneasy relationship with the west and faced criticism over slow progress on peace talksAfghan president Ashraf Ghani left the presidential palace in Kabul to the insurgent Taliban fighters who had toppled his…