Foreign secretary faces grilling as Labour says he ‘had 18 months to prepare but was missing in action’Dominic Raab faces a grilling over what has been described as “the biggest failure of foreign policy in a generation” on Wednesday, as the government…
Afghanistan live news: another blast reported near Kabul airport amid warnings of further attacks
Reports of ‘powerful explosion’ thought to have been rocket attack in Afghan capital, following warnings from US of ‘specific, credible’ threats Joe Biden says new Kabul terror attack highly likely in next 24 to 36 hoursUK councils ‘ready to assist’ Af…
Biden meets remains of 13 troops killed in Kabul as US promises more strikes
Secretary of state to bereaved father: ‘I’m deeply sorry’Adviser: US will help people leave after deadlineAfghanistan – live coverageThe White House on Sunday reasserted its promise to capture or kill the perpetrators of the deadly attacks on Kabul air…
Mother pleads for baby injured in Kabul airport attack to be brought to UK
Basbibi Raza says she had been cleared to board evacuation flight and was prevented from returning to reach her sonAfghanistan: live updatesThe mother of a baby who was critically injured when his grandfather, a London minicab driver, died in the Kabul…
UK councils urged to offer housing and support to fleeing Afghans
Government calls on two-thirds of local authorities yet to come forward to make firm offers of helpAfghanistan: live updatesBritain’s councils have been urged to come forward and provide accommodation and other help for Afghans fleeing the Taliban afte…
Ministers ‘asleep on watch’ over safety of Afghans, says ex-British army chief
Gen Lord Richard Dannatt says ‘unfathomable’ why issue of those who helped British forces was not addressed earlierAfghanistan – live updatesA former head of the British Army has said it is “unfathomable” that the UK government appeared to have been “a…
Fears grow for Afghan refugees stuck in ‘Kafkaesque’ Poland-Belarus standoff
Lukashenko accused of encouraging refugees to come to Belarus in retaliation for Brussels sanctionsAfghanistan – live updatesFears are growing for a group of Afghan refugees who fled their country last month and made their way to Europe, only to find …
I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on | Jason Burke
Listening to Joe Biden’s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is this a crisis destined to repeat itself?Many who heard President Biden’s pledge to exact revenge for the killing of 13 US Marines in an Islamic …
Kabul is only the start: US allies feel the draught as Biden turns his back
Retreat from Afghanistan gives a clear signal of a US shift on counter-terrorism that leaves the rest of the world to fend for itselfIt is, perhaps, dreadfully apt that an invasion which began 20 years ago as a counter-terrorism operation has ended in …
The Observer view on the resurgence of the Taliban | Observer editorial
Afghanistan has humbled the US and empowered its enemies. Now the west must engage with its new rulers to avert an even bigger threatAfghanistan is a tragedy, a parable and a cautionary tale for our age. As the last, desperate evacuees scramble aboard …