Afghanistan

The prime minister will take part in a virtual meeting of the G7 leaders tomorrow to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan. 

The Taliban insist it’s a hard deadline – all foreign troops must leave Afghanistan by next Tuesday. 

Masoud Andarabi is Afghanistan’s former Interior Minister, who is now in the United States.

We spoke to the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, who is chair of the Commons defence select committee and a former army officer.

Another seven people have been killed in the panicked scenes around Kabul airport, with tens of thousands of people still desperate to escape Taliban controlled Afghanistan.

Thousands have rallied in central London in solidarity with the Afghan people – some of them with friends or relatives still trapped in the country.

We spoke to Samantha Mort from UNICEF Afghanistan, who is in Kabul.

We spoke to Zubair Juenda, who was a diplomat in Afghanistan. He arrived in the UK yesterday with his wife and children after getting into the military camp at the airport run by western forces.

Thousands of people are still crowded outside the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, fearing time is running out to escape the Taliban.

US President Joe Biden says to Americans in Afghanistan: “We will get you home”.

This week will live long in the memory of Afghanistan, a country pivotal to the history of the region.

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”.

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.

The logistical problems of getting people out of Kabul are overwhelming.

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.