{"id":36192,"date":"2021-08-31T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/31\/afghanistan-live-news-kabul-taliban-biden-final-us-flight-military-forces-leave-airport-islamic-state-latest-updates"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:40:30","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-biden-confirms-end-of-20-year-us-military-presence-as-taliban-celebrate-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36192","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: country wakes to new era under Taliban after US withdrawal completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden confirms end of 20-year military presence; US secretary of state says support for Taliban \u2018will have to be earned\u2019; Taliban fire guns into the air in Kabul in celebration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/30\/pentagon-kabul-drone-strike-islamic-state\">Chaos and bloodshed as last US flight leaves Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/report-reveals-us-decision-to-keep-open-kabul-airport-gate-before-attack\">Afghanistan: what can refugees do now that UK evacuation is over?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/report-reveals-us-decision-to-keep-open-kabul-airport-gate-before-attack\">Report reveals US decision to keep open Kabul airport gate before attack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">See all our Afghanistan coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-31T06:40:30.288Z\">7.40am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The final US troops left Kabul on a flight shortly before midnight local time on Monday, meeting the US commitment to withdraw ahead of the deadline. The Taliban has since proclaimed \u201cfull independence\u201d for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The new regime in Afghanistan faces pressure to respect human rights and provide safe passage for those who wish to escape its rule following the passage of a UN Security Council resolution, PA news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s UN Security Council resolution, led by the UK with our allies, makes clear that the international community stands with Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>There can be no return to repression or terror. We will push as one voice for safe passage, humanitarian access and respect for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s resolution is an important step towards a unified international response to the situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to build on this to ensure the council holds the Taliban accountable on its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of shared ground for us to work from although, in this case, Russia and China abstained rather than voted for the resolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-31T06:23:07.023Z\">7.23am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>British forces are prepared to launch airstrikes to target so-called Islamic State terrorists in Afghanistan, the head of the RAF indicated, as the US-led military presence in the country came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>US forces finally withdrew from Afghanistan on Monday, bringing to an end a deployment that began in the wake of the September 11 attacks two decades ago. The end of the western military presence \u2013 the UK had already pulled out its remaining troops \u2013 also concluded the airborne evacuation effort from Kabul, leaving Afghans wanting to escape the Taliban facing an uncertain future, PA Media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately what this boils down to is that we\u2019ve got to be able to play a global role in the global coalition to defeat Daesh, whether it\u2019s strike, or whether it\u2019s moving troops or equipment into a particular country, at scale and at speed.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s an opportunity for us to contribute I am in no doubt that we will be ready to \u2013 that will be anywhere where violent extremism raises its head, and is a direct or indirect threat to the UK and our allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/31\/afghanistan-live-news-kabul-taliban-biden-final-us-flight-military-forces-leave-airport-islamic-state-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden confirms end of 20-year military presence; US secretary of state says support for Taliban \u2018will have to be earned\u2019; Taliban fire guns into the air in Kabul in celebrationChaos and bloodshed as last US flight leaves KabulAfghanistan: what can refu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192\/revisions\/36216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}