Afghanistan live news: reports Taliban guards beating Afghans trying to reach Kabul airport

Reports of unrest at Taliban checkpoints around Kabul airport; Pentagon investigating how civilians were killed as they clung to aircraft. Follow the latest updates

Women, children and religious minorities will be prioritised in a new UK resettlement scheme for 20,000 Afghan refugees, Boris Johnson will announce, acknowledging that those who helped the western coalition over two decades are now most at risk from the Taliban takeover.

But most of the 20,000 are likely to have fled to neighbouring countries such as Pakistan before being resettled in Britain over five years, a Whitehall source said, unless the UK can strike an agreement with the Taliban to let people depart.

Related: UK to take 20,000 Afghan refugees over five years under resettlement plan

Plus ça change…

How ironic..read this first paragraph from Ashraf Ghani’s oped (1989) and apply it to August 2021…. pic.twitter.com/EyiMIGjXSh

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