Search results for ‘Kabul’
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Afghanistan: UK prepares to rehouse thousands fleeing country
As Afghans struggle to board planes out of Kabul, the UK government promises “one of the most generous resettlement schemes in our country’s history”.
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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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Afghans wanting to flee terrified ‘they’ll be arrested or shot’, says retired British Army General
The logistical problems of getting people out of Kabul are overwhelming.
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Taliban have already started their revenge, says former Afghan ambassador to UK
We spoke to Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to the UK. His brother, Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
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Afghanistan: Thousands desperate to leave as Taliban set up roadblocks
Thousands of Afghans are still desperate to leave and international governments are keen to get them out. It would all have been so much easier if NATO had held onto Bagram air base outside Kabul.
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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: Protesters take to the streets to challenge Taliban rule
In Afghanistan, protesters have defied the Taliban for a second day, taking to the streets in several cities, waving the country’s national flag in a challenge to the militants’ rule.
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‘We should be in Afghanistan still,’ says former British Army commander
We were joined by Richard Streatfeild, a former British Army commander, and the former British ambassador to Kabul, Sir William Patey. And from Oslo in Norway, we also spoke to Ashley Jackson, who’s co-director of the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups.
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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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How Taliban takeover looks to UK-based Afghans
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…
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Afghanistan: three dead as Taliban open fire on protesters
Taliban fighters have fired warning shots and attacked people with batons to break up a protest in the eastern city of Jalalabad, leaving several people dead or injured. There’s been more chaos outside the airport in the capital Kabul, as thousands of people tried to flee the country with one report claiming several people were…
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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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UK government working on resettlement scheme for vulnerable Afghans
As British troops continue with the evacuation of the remaining British nationals in Kabul, MPs will be called back tomorrow to parliament for five hours of debate.
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‘Sheer desperation’: Harrow councillor’s escape from Afghanistan
We spoke to Peymana Assad, who is a Labour councillor for the London borough of Harrow.
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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.