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Support cuts across party lines, with a majority of both Conservative and Labour voters against the pulloutAlmost half of the public believes that the US decision to end its military involvement in Afghanistan was wrong, according to a new Observer pol…
Read MoreThere is no coherent system, and those who do make it to the airport face days stuck waiting to board flightsIn a voice quivering with fear and exhaustion, Sara pleaded down the phone: “Please, get us out of here. The situation is very bad, we are trap…
Read MoreEmbattled president promises: ‘We will get you home’Biden endeavors to evacuate Afghans who supported USJoe Biden, under mounting pressure to evacuate American citizens from Afghanistan, has said the US is considering “every means” to get people to Kab…
Read MoreDuring ‘farewell summit’ with Angela Merkel, Russian leader says US-led campaign cannot be called a successVladimir Putin has demanded that countries not interfere in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul, saying the west “must stop the irresponsible pol…
Read MoreUS president tells ABC: ‘We’re going to stay until we get them all out’ amid continued chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as thousands seek to fleeJoe Biden has said US troops may stay past a 31 August deadline so as to evacuate all Americans from Afghani…
Read MoreAnalysis: US efforts to neutralise the threat posed by extremist groups in Afghanistan targeting the west will not be easyJoe Biden has said the US will maintain an “over the horizon” counter-terrorism capability to neutralise the threat posed by Islam…
Read MoreSenior Tory and Labour MPs united in their criticism of US president’s approach to Afghan crisisAfghanistan crisis: live updatesSenior British politicians have called on the government to repudiate Joe Biden’s comments on Afghanistan, saying the UK sho…
Read MoreA 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 …
Read MoreAnalysis: 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…
Read MoreAfter 20 years during which he was routinely tortured, Mansoor Adayfi, who now lives in Serbia, asks: ‘What if that had been American boys?’When a shackled Mansoor Adayfi was lumped on to a heap of shivering, naked bodies in the pitch black, a hood ove…
Read MorePoorly 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…
Read MoreAshraf Ghani says focus is on preventing ‘further instability, violence and displacement’Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, captur…
Read MoreThe president has been condemned by Republicans as the Taliban advance – but the roots of the crisis date back yearsThe words of political leaders can come back to haunt them. “None whatsoever, zero,” Joe Biden said last month when asked if he saw any …
Read MorePeople are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibility“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan…
Read MoreBen Wallace says he is ‘absolutely concerned’ about terrorism threat, contradicting Biden analysisJoe Biden’s decision to rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan is threatening to turn into one of the biggest Anglo-American foreign policy rifts in decades, w…
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