カテゴリー: Taliban
Leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have reacted to the news that the Taliban has begun taking control of Kabul after a 20-year mission to Afghanistan led by western countries. UK prime minister Boris Johnsons said, ‘we don’t wan…
With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuateTaliban spokesman claims ‘war is over’ – latest updatesThousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at …
Crowds have packed the tarmac at Kabul airport in a bid to flee the Afghan capital as Taliban insurgents began taking over the city. Insurgents took control of the presidential palace. Al Jazeera showed footage of what it said were Taliban commanders i…
Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mark Milley, reportedly issued warning to congressional leaders Sunday morningThe US’s top military general has warned that the collapse of the Afghan government and return of Taliban rule could accelerate the pos…
President Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan as Taliban sweep into city to seize control of countryTaliban enters Kabul – live updatesThe 20-year western mission to Afghanistan collapsed in a single dramatic day as Taliban gunmen poured into the capital, K…
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’Early on Sunday morning I was heading to university for a class when a group of women came running out from the women’s dormitory. I as…
Fears Chevening scholarship students blocked by Foreign Office could become targets of TalibanTaliban enter Kabul – live updatesBoris Johnson has promised that the government will try to help 35 Afghan students get visas to travel to the UK, after they…
Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unansweredTaliban enter Kabul – live updatesThis is what defeat looks like. Embassy burn bins blazing through day and night. The president fleeing. Helicopters and armo…
Prices soar and rumours fly while westerners try to leave after fall of Afghan capital to TalibanTaliban enter Kabul – live updatesResidents of Kabul said on Sunday that the dramatic fall of the city had left them deeply fearful, and especially worried…
Poorly led and riddled with corruption, the Afghan army was overrun in a matter of weeksTaliban enters Kabul – live updatesThe Taliban have 80,000 troops in comparison with a nominal 300,699 serving the Afghan government, yet the whole country has bee…
Insurgents appear to have met little or no resistance entering Afghan capital as US diplomats ferried to airport• Taliban enter Kabus – live updatesThe Taliban are poised to take full control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, after their fighters took up p…
As city after city falls to the Taliban, women fear that the freedoms won since 2001 will be crushedIn a market in Kabul, Aref is doing a booming trade. At first glance, the walls of his shop seem to be curtained in folds of blue fabric. On closer insp…
Evacuations begin as Taliban close in on the capital, which is now the only major city under government control after the fall of JalalabadAfghanistan – live updatesThe US has started evacuating diplomats from its Kabul embassy, two US officials have s…
Many former interpreters whose visa applications have been held up by Australian bureaucracy are now trapped by the Taliban advance, as the RAAF mounts a last-minute evacuation effortFollow live updates on the Afghanistan crisisAn Afghan interpreter wh…