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‘Lack of planning’ to house Afghan refugees says Labour councillor
We spoke to Peymana Assad, a Labour councillor for the London borough of Harrow, who was evacuated from Kabul herself by the RAF, caught up in the chaos while visiting.
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Taliban ‘empowered’ by American cooperation, says former US Assistant Secretary of Defence
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
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Afghanistan: Did a US drone strike kill 10 civilians?
America says its anti missile system intercepted one of five rockets as they were being fired towards Kabul airport.
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A million children at risk of malnourishment, say UNICEF
We spoke to Sam Mort, who’s the communications chief at Unicef Afghanistan – and is still based in Kabul.
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‘Now we would trusting the US and UK, but now they left us’, says former refugee who survived Grenfell
Flora Neda and her husband, an Afghan army officer, fled the Taliban in 1996. Two decades later he died in the Grenfell fire, after staying to help four women who took refuge in their top floor flat.
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Afghanistan: Final evacuations to UK after deadly airport bombings
Terrified crowds are still massed at Kabul airport despite yesterday’s carnage, while Boris Johnson confirmed that two British adults and a teenager were among the dead.
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Afghans in UK fear for relatives left in Afghanistan
We hear from one Afghan man, now living in the Midlands.
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US troops killed in Afghanistan terror attacks, says Pentagon
President Biden has been meeting his national security team in the White House situation room following twin bomb attacks on Kabul airport – the centre of ongoing evacuation efforts of US citizens and Afghan civilians.
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Isis-K has found recruiting ground in Afghanistan, says journalist
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.
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‘The Taliban leadership is struggling to bring some control’, says Afghan journalist
Earlier this month, we spoke to the Kabul-based journalist Bilal Sarwary from Afghanistan. He has fled the country as a result of persistent threats from theTaliban and is now in Doha.
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Afghans with right to come to UK will have to travel via third country when airlift ends
As the deadline approaches, the British government said they will use “every hour” left to evacuate as many people out of Afghanistan as possible.
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Afghanistan: Afghans fear being left behind as evacuation deadline looms
In Kabul, the clock continues to tick for those wanting to flee Afghanistan. There was no let-up in the chaos at the city’s airport as families at the gates begged soldiers for a space on the departing planes.
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Does UK government know how many Brits are still in Afghanistan?
It sounds like a simple question: how many British nationals, Afghan allies and other people eligible to come to the UK are still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan? With just days to go before the 31 August deadline and the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warning yesterday that “not everyone will get out” of the…
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Afghanistan: US Pentagon confident all Americans will get out before deadline
The Pentagon has given more detail about stepping up evacuation efforts in Kabul.
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UNICEF ‘deeply concerned’ about welfare of children in Afghanistan
We spoke to Samantha Mort from UNICEF Afghanistan, who is in Kabul.