Jon Snow , Presenter

John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken. 

We are joined now by the former CIA chief Leon Panetta, who also served as US defence secretary under President Obama.

One of the many thousands of people who’ve fled the country is Nargis Nehan, a former minister with the Afghan government and a women’s rights activist. 

We spoke to the journalist Suddaf Chaudry, who is in Kabul, and began by asking her about the group thought to be behind today’s terrorist attacks.

We spoke to musician Aryana Saeed and began by asking her about the journey she took to leave Afghanistan.

We spoke to Sir Christopher Meyer, a former diplomat who served as the British ambassador to the United States.

The evacuation deadline is felt keenly by those racing to get friends and family out of Kabul. 

We spoke to retired US Army Colonel Christopher Kolenda, who fought in Afghanistan and negotiated with the Taliban in peace talks.

We spoke to Hina Rabbani Khar, who is a former foreign minister of Pakistan and asked her what role is Pakistan playing in the region?

For Afghans living here, the events of the last two weeks have been traumatic. We went to meet Dr Waheed Arian, who spent his childhood in Afghanistan in the middle of the Soviet conflict. His family fled during the fighting. We also spoke to Hammasa Kohistani, an Afghan model who moved to the UK when…

Pashtana Durrani runs the charity Learn in Kandahar which focuses on getting girls into education. She has moved location a number of times to keep safe as the Taliban have taken one region after another in Afghanistan.  She spoke with Jon Snow about the heightened sense of fear felt by people in her community.  ‘People…

We speak to former foreign secretary David Miliband, who’s now president of the International Rescue Committee, the humanitarian relief organisation.

Jawed Ludin was a former Afghan deputy foreign minister, spokesperson and chief of staff under President Hamid Karzai.

As territory falls with seemingly inevitable speed to the Taliban, the Washington Post journalist Craig Whitlock has claimed in his new book that three successive American presidents and their commanders misled the public, committing more and more troops to an endless conflict, despite losing all sight of their original objectives. 

We spoke to Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Afghanistan, and started by asking him for his thoughts on what’s happening in the country now.