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Afghanistan: Raab under pressure after government fails to make crucial phone call
Boris Johnson has insisted he has full confidence in his Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab after it emerged that no-one in the government made a crucial phone call to speed up the evacuation of Afghan interpreters as Kabul fell to the Taliban.
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The fall of Kabul
In today’s episode, we chat with our International Editor about where this leaves the West’s status as defenders of freedom and liberty, and we ask, what was the point of the last 20 years of bloodshed?
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Boy who died in Sheffield hotel fall was Afghan refugee
A five-year-old boy who died after falling from a hotel room window in Sheffield was an Afghan refugee, who had only just arrived with his family in the UK after escaping from the Taliban.
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Afghanistan: ‘We’ve got utter chaos right now’, says former US military advisor
We spoke to retired US Army Colonel Christopher Kolenda, who fought in Afghanistan and negotiated with the Taliban in peace talks.
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Afghanistan: son and daughter reflect on the pain of losing their soldier father
Regimental Sergeant Major Darren Chant was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, leaving three children behind.
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Afghanistan has been ‘complete disaster’, Jeremy Corbyn says
Former Labour leader, now an independent MP, Jeremy Corbyn and the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who is chair of the Commons defence select committee, joined Matt Frei to discuss the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. MF: Jeremy Corbyn, you were never in favour of this military intervention, are you relieved that it is now over? JC:…
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‘I had to pay my neighbour’s 4-year-old son to accompany me’, says former judge in Afghanistan
We spoke to Najla Ayoubi, an Afghan lawyer, former judge and women’s rights advocate who was ultimately forced to flee the country in 2015, and Kate Clark, a former correspondent who now works as an analyst in Kabul. She was evacuated yesterday.
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Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
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How much has the Afghan conflict cost Britain?
The British government has released figures, but experts say these numbers significantly underestimate the true total cost.
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MPs recalled to parliament to debate Afghanistan crisis
The loss of Afghanistan to the Taliban is prompting a political crisis in Westminster, with MPs called back to parliament later this week.
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Afghanistan: what has endless war achieved?
All the Afghan, British and American lives lost and the decades spent bogged down in the conflict.
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Bush, Obama and Trump administrations lied to American people about Afghanistan, says journalist
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.
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Afghanistan war: We’re going to lose everything we worked for, says Kandahar NGO executive
We spoke to Pashtana Durrani, who runs a charity which focuses on getting girls into education in Kandahar. She is now trapped in her home while the Taliban edges closer. We asked what was happening there as we spoke.
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International community left Afghanistan without consulting people, Afghan politician says
We spoke to the Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi, who is part of the Afghan delegation in talks with the Taliban in Doha.
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First Afghan interpreters evacuated to US
More than 200 former Afghan interpreters who worked alongside US forces have arrived at a military airbase near Washington DC, under a new visa scheme to help relocate them out of harm’s way.