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Afghanistan: US does not want to take risk of delaying withdrawal
In the US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to give an update on the evacuation.
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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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Afghanistan: Biden refuses to extend deadline to withdraw US troops
The message from the Taliban today was clear – all foreign troops have to leave by Tuesday next week. Joe Biden wouldn’t budge from that deadline either, despite calls from other G7 leaders for a delay to allow more people to be evacuated.
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Show Taliban ‘respect’ to secure evacuation extension, says former British ambassador
We spoke to Sir Christopher Meyer, a former diplomat who served as the British ambassador to the United States.
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Afghanistan: Evacuations under intense scrutiny in US
In the US, the evacuation of citizens and Afghan allies is also under intense scrutiny.
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Afghanistan: Johnson to urge Biden to delay withdrawal
The prime minister will take part in a virtual meeting of the G7 leaders tomorrow to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan.
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At least 10 dead following catastrophic flooding in Tennessee
At least ten people have died and dozens are missing after catastrophic flooding in the US state of Tennessee.
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‘We will get you home’: Biden’s promise to Americans in Afghanistan
US President Joe Biden says to Americans in Afghanistan: “We will get you home”.
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Biden defends US withdrawal from Afghanistan in address to nation
A new report by the Afghanistan Reconstruction watchdog has said that there was no coherent strategy to rebuild the country.
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Biden under fire over ease of Taliban takeover after US troop withdrawal
Much of the blame for the fall of Afghanistan is being laid at the door of the Biden administration.
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‘No strategic choices now, just an operational reality and a tactical embarrassment,’ says former Head of British Army
So what strategy can the international community now grasp from the wreckage of comprehensive defeat.
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Afghanistan: Has US and UK withdrawal led to Taliban rise?
Operation Enduring Freedom the Americans called it.
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The Taliban saw US and UK withdrawal from Afghanistan as a “victory”, says former Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi is a peace negotiator and former Afghan member of parliament. She’s survived a number of assassination attempts during her career fighting for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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Taliban takeover in Afghanistan continues as US and UK deploy troops to evacuate embassy staff
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani defied expectations and remained in post today, telling Afghans he is holding urgent talks with local and international leaders to find a way to halt the Taliban offensive across Afghanistan.
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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.
