Getty Images President Joe Biden says the US airlift from Kabul will continue despite a jihadist attack that killed over 60 people including 13 US service members. “We must complete this mission and we will,” he said. He also vowed to hunt down the perpetrators. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul, which
Month: August 2021
The “overwhelming majority” of eligible people have now been evacuated from Afghanistan by the UK, the prime minister has said. Boris Johnson said about 15,000 people had been flown out of the capital, Kabul, but that the time remaining for evacuation efforts was “quite short”. It comes amid a race to evacuate thousands before foreign
Reuters The US and UK have warned its citizens to move away from Kabul airport and avoid travelling there due to security threats. Both countries issued alerts late on Wednesday as thousands of people are still waiting inside and outside the airport waiting to fly out. More than 82,000 have been airlifted from Kabul, which
Law enforcement agencies and government organizations from 24 countries outside the United States used a controversial facial recognition technology called Clearview AI, according to internal company data reviewed by BuzzFeed News. That data, which runs up until February 2020, shows that police departments, prosecutors’ offices, universities, and interior ministries from around the world ran nearly
Despite thousands of people already being flown out of Kabul, the collapse of Afghanistan has caused chaos for many British citizens trying to return to the UK. Afghan families already settled here are also desperate to help loved ones in limbo. Special correspondent Ed Thomas has been hearing the stories of those who have found
As the Taliban swept to power last week, Afghans working for the United Nations watched as many of their foreign colleagues got on planes to leave the country. But their own increasingly desperate pleas for help getting out — or at least for somewhere safe to stay if the Taliban targets them for their work
US President Joe Biden says the US is “on pace” to meet a 31 August deadline for evacuations, despite previous calls from allies for an extension. “The sooner we finish the better,” he said. Some American troops have already been withdrawn, US media report – although evacuations are not affected. At least 70,700 people have
Getty Images Reports of the Taliban carrying out summary executions in Afghanistan are “credible”, says UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet. Other rights violations, including restrictions on women and recruiting child soldiers, were also reported, she told the UN Human Rights Council. The Taliban practised a strict version of Islamic law (Sharia) when they
Reuters The US aims to complete evacuations from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by a 31 August withdrawal deadline – as calls grow from allies to extend it. The Pentagon said it was not yet at the point to seek a change, though the UK, France and Germany will step up pressure at a virtual G7 summit. The
Reuters An anti-Taliban resistance group in Afghanistan says it has thousands of people ready to fight. Ali Nazary, head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), told the BBC they want to pursue peaceful negotiations. But, he added, “if this fails… then we’re not going to accept any sort of aggression”.
US Marine Corps/Reuters Commercial planes will be used to help with the evacuation of people from Afghanistan, the US says. Eighteen aircraft will transfer people to third countries from safe sites outside Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. Many thousands of Afghans are crowded outside Kabul airport, desperate to flee the country after the Taliban swept to
British involvement in Afghanistan was not a “hopeless endeavour” despite the Taliban takeover, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said the sacrifice made by UK troops – including those who died – “was not in vain”. Mr Blair said achievements in the country over the past 20 years – including a generation growing
US Marine Corps/Reuters The US has warned its citizens to avoid Kabul airport amid concerns about the potential for attacks by Afghanistan’s branch of the Islamic State (IS) group. A security alert on Saturday told US citizens to stay away due to possible “security threats outside the gates”. Only those individually told to make the
This week, we watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban following the withdrawal of US troops. Thousands of Afghans crowded the airport, desperate to leave the country. We also kept our eyes trained on Haiti, where people are dealing with back-to-back natural disasters only weeks after their president was assassinated. It’s been a
Shekib Rahmani / AP Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 16, 2021. Thao-Nguyen Le hasn’t been able to stop thinking about Afghanistan. For Le, whose father was imprisoned by the communist government of Vietnam after the US
Reuters Greece has installed a 40km (25-mile) fence and surveillance system on its border with Turkey amid concern over a surge of migrants from Afghanistan. “We cannot wait, passively, for the possible impact,” Greece’s Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said on a visit to the region of Evros on Friday. “Our borders will remain inviolable.”
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