カテゴリー: Nato
Ben Wallace says west’s ‘resolve was found wanting’ but Taliban did not inflict military defeatNato’s political campaign in Afghanistan was a failure, the defence secretary has said, as he insisted the western alliance had not suffered a military defea…
With at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
Western G7 powers are meeting Turkey, Qatar and Nato in Doha to discuss how Kabul airport could be reopenedAfghanistan – live updatesTalks are due in Doha and New York to try to reach an international consensus on the conditions for recognising the Tal…
Lack of planning and coordination has left the west scrambling to do the right thingAt the weekend, in advance of Tuesday’s crisis meeting of G7 leaders, Boris Johnson tweeted that it was vital for the international community to work together to “ensur…
Officials in Pul-e-Khumri say government forces abandoned compounds during heady fightingThe Taliban have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction lin…
Afghan forces defend western city of Herat and Lashkar Gah in south as Kandahar airport hit by rocketsThe Taliban escalated its nationwide offensive in Afghanistan on Sunday, launching renewed assaults on three major cities and rocketing a major airpor…
This shabby, half-hidden retreat by western forces abandons a nation to mayhem, civil war and terrorThe conflict in Afghanistan – America’s longest war – is at an end, or so President Joe Biden is expected to declare this week. At an end, too, is Brita…
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Beijing’s EU mission issues forceful response to Nato communique, saying it shows ‘cold war mentality’China’s mission to the EU has accused Nato of slander and of “hyping up the so-called ‘China threat’” after leaders of the western alliance warned tha…
Analysis: some observers say Beijing may well seek to undermine Nato unity in response to being accused of posing a systemic challenge to western valuesWhen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was established on 4 April 1949, its mission was …
Communique is first time alliance has asserted it needs to respond to Beijing’s growing powerNato leaders have declared China presents a security risk at their annual summit in Brussels, the first time the traditionally Russia-focused military alliance…
Last week’s massacre of schoolgirls showed just how grim the years ahead could be. The US and its allies cannot disclaim responsibilityThe three-day Eid ceasefire announced by the Taliban is a rare and brief respite for Afghans. The country is reeling …
Joe Biden has called time on America’s longest war. The decision exposes the limits of US power and leaves an uncertain futureBritain’s former prime minister Harold Macmillan is said to have told colleagues that the first law of politics should be “nev…
Withdrawal of US and Nato military personnel to begin on 1 May‘It’s time to end America’s longest war’ – Biden at White HouseUS president Joe Biden has declared it was time “to end America’s longest war” as he announced that nearly 10,000 US and Nato t…
After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline IslamistsOutside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americ…