‘I stand squarely behind my decision,’ says Biden; Kabul airport reopens with US in charge of air traffic control; Taliban patrol Kabul Kabul airport: footage appears to show Afghans falling from plane Who are the Taliban and how will they govern this time? Expected Afghan influx reopens divisions over refugees […]
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Jake Davison shot dead five people and also wounded a 55-year-old woman and her son after police reinstated his gun licence Family of a mother and son who were shot through their front door by the Plymouth attacker have voiced anger at police for reinstating his gun licence weeks before […]
Analysis: Joe Biden and Boris Johnson five weeks ago claimed Afghan government would not fall so easily Desperate crowds at Kabul airport as Afghans try to escape Taliban – latest updates Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable”, the US president said […]
President Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan as Taliban sweep into city to seize control of country Taliban enters Kabul – live updates The final collapse of the 20-year western mission to Afghanistan took only a single day as Taliban gunmen entered the capital, Kabul, on Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani fled the […]
Type of rule and the form of regime will be clear soon, says spokesperson for Taliban political office; Ashraf Ghani leaves the country; all US Embassy personnel evacuated to airport, says state department. Follow the latest updates ‘This is not Saigon’: Blinken defends US mission in Afghanistan Timeline: the Taliban’s […]
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’ Early on Sunday morning I was heading to university for a class when a group of women came running out from the women’s dormitory. I asked what had […]
With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuate Taliban spokesman claims ‘war is over’ – latest updates Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at Kabul airport seeking a place on a flight […]
Research by thinktank finds women’s mental health particularly affected as home working increases Covid working from home has caused an “epidemic of hidden overtime” that particularly affects women, leading to a need for new “right to disconnect” laws, according a report from Autonomy thinktank. The organisation said unpaid labour was […]
Capital hit by blackout as insurgent fighters reach outskirts and western nations race to evacuate citizens Report: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban 3.46am BST The animated version of the map I posted earlier: Time lapse video of the Taliban’s offensive when it began taking […]
Woman, 18, is in intensive care in Abidjan as emergency plan to identify her contacts begins Ivory Coast has recorded a case of Ebola, its health minister has said, the first occurrence of the deadly disease in the country in nearly three decades. Officials at the Institut Pasteur confirmed the […]