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Nick Carter highlights challenging judgments that have had to be made on the ground in KabulAfghanistan live news: British troops will end Kabul evacuation operation today, says armed forces chiefFear and fury in Kabul as thousands face being abandoned…
Read MoreWhen I served in Afghanistan I questioned Britain’s part in the war, but the scale of the human cost has made me fully reject itClive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich SouthI can’t speak for other veterans, but I was never certain of the legitimacy of…
Read MoreUK defence secretary says Paul Farthing, his team and animals can leave on chartered planeA former Royal Marine who has been campaigning to have dozens of people and hundreds of animals at his sanctuary evacuated from Afghanistan has been offered a gli…
Read MoreBritain’s armed forces are dodging responsibility for failings in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues Prof Paul Dixon. RC Pennington fears military history is doomed to repeat itself. Plus letters from Margaret Phelps, Diana Francis and Jim GolcherSimon Akam…
Read MoreWarnings from senior diplomat that staying past deadline next week would cross ‘red line’Britain has begun a last-ditch scramble to get people out of Kabul amid warnings from the senior diplomat on the ground that staying past the 31 August deadline ma…
Read MoreDefence secretary says British evacuation effort cannot continue once US troops leave KabulThe British effort to evacuate people by air from Kabul is “down to hours now, not weeks”, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said.He admitted there was no …
Read MoreMinisters are becoming openly critical of Joe Biden after being left in the dark about major decisionsSo much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relatio…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreAll of the 125-member security team will now be given the right to enter the UKThe government has made a dramatic U-turn on its refusal to offer support to a team of 125 Afghan guards who protected the British embassy in Kabul, and has promised they wi…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MorePM 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…
Read MoreCommander of UK’s evacuation effort says aim is 1,000 people a day leaving, but airport could be closed at any timeUS, UK and other western forces have helped to secure Kabul’s international airport, allowing the RAF to begin mass airlifts out of the A…
Read MoreDesperate 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…
Read MoreThe UK defence secretary has admitted ‘some people will not get back’ as Britain tries to evacuate Afghan allies from Kabul, along with its own citizens, with British forces aiming to repatriate more than 1,000 people a day. Ben Wallace appeared to hol…
Read MoreSir Richard Barrons says withdrawal of western troops a ‘strategic mistake’ as Taliban make territorial gainsAfghanistan could once again become a base for international terrorism, according to a former senior UK military commander who has described th…
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