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Analysis: Tuesday’s meeting called by Boris Johnson may include postmortem on Joe Biden’s handling of crisisThe emergency meeting of G7 nations on Tuesday – called by Boris Johnson as this year’s chair of the G7 – is in essence a gathering of the vanqu…
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…
The UK’s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters’ dream of a transformed nation wasSo much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters’ F…
As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
How the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan precipitated a political one at the heart of UK governmentOn Thursday last week, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, had tried to sound composed as he announced a small number of British troops were heading ou…
Family appeals to Boris Johnson in case that raises questions about criteria for evacuationAn Afghan man who worked in the kitchen at the British embassy in Kabul for seven years has appealed to Boris Johnson to save him and his family from the Taliban…
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has castigated the government over its reaction to events unfolding in Afghanistan, saying the prime minister’s response to the Taliban ‘arriving at the gates of Kabul’ was ‘to go on holiday’, and that the foreign secre…
‘Where is Global Britain on streets of Kabul?’: Theresa May blasts UK failure in Afghanistan – video
The former prime minister Theresa May has suggested her successor, Boris Johnson, had hoped ‘on a wing and a prayer it’d be all right on the night’ once the S and its allies had withdrawn from Afghanistan.Johnson has faced anger from MPs about the UK’s…
PM says military defence of Afghanistan was not possible in absence of ‘American might’ Afghanistan live news: latest updatesBoris Johnson has faced anger from MPs about the UK’s failure to prepare for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, as he made th…
Former senior military and security figures say PM’s decision to depart was ‘dereliction of duty’Afghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flightsBoris Johnson’s departure on holiday on Saturday, despite public warnings the Taliban would be i…
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 …
Tories and Labour MPs call for asylum in UK for refugees amid fears high-profile women will be targetedFollow Afghanistan live newsBoris Johnson is coming under pressure from his own MPs to urgently set up a new resettlement scheme for Afghan refugees,…
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…
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…
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…