Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban

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Some smiled softly and others looked worn down by the events of the last two weeks. All were dressed in military-style bullet proof vests.

Aug 2021 - 17:29 GMT Pakistan not granting refugee status to Afghans fleeing since Taliban takeover: interior minister We’re in a particularly dangerous time right now,” Kirby told reporters. “The threat stream is still real, it’s still active, and in many cases it’s still specific.” Ministry of Higher Education informs rectors,deans, professors and adminstrtive staff of governmental and private universities to report to their jobs tomorrow 31st August and resume their administrative and academic works including making due preparations for starting classes. Labour has accused government ministers of being "missing in action", with leader Sir Keir Starmer saying: "We've known for 18 months that this moment was coming.Blinken outlined the US' plans for the "days and weeks ahead," including suspending their diplomatic presence in Kabul as of today and creating a new team. The XVIII Airborne Corps, whose forces go by the Sky Dragons, were among the last to step off Afghan soil as the total withdrawal of U.S. forces concluded Monday, ahead of the August 31 deadline. Omid Scobie's book is understood to include a volley of withering criticisms of the Royal Family. Here, Royal Correspondent NATASHA LIVINGSTONE sifts fact from fiction... He took over as commander of Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division, in North Carolina, in July 2020 and told The Fayetteville Observer that he relished the high tempo of the job. As we continue working to help our allies and welcome Afghan refugees with open arms, let's also commit to stopping endless wars once and for all.

Families of the fallen U.S. service members were left disappointed by Joe Biden at the dignified transfer on Sunday. One sister of a fallen Marine yelled at the president: 'I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!' They’re being really tight lipped because things have been pretty tense in the Pentagon over the past couple of weeks, but not quite like this though,” she said, reporting from Washington DC. SARAH VINE: Royal biographer Omid Scobie may be a leech... but the treachery of Harry was so much worse By the evacuation's conclusion, well over 116,000 people, mostly Afghans, had been flown to safety.

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He later moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as special assistant to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon. Ministry of Higher Education informs rectors, deans, professors and administrative staff of governmental and private universities to report to their jobs tomorrow 31st August and resume their administrative and academic works including making due preparations for starting classes,” he tweeted. The airport was our last hope; it simply could not fall. A fellow operative held up his phone. "Just heard that the airport's military side has been breached," he said.

Human rights group Amnesty international condemned the US drone strike that killed civilians including several children, saying it had a “responsibility to the families of the dead”. The BBC reported that a taxi driver from London, Mohammad Niazi, was killed during gunfire in the aftermath of the blast, while his wife and two of their children were missing. A second British victim was identified as Musa Papal, 60, according to Sky News.

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Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reporting from Kabul says some US war planes have been flying lower the usual, making them more visible, a warning to armed groups that “American air superiority remains very much in play”. After the United States withdraw the bulk of its remaining troops last month, the Taliban accelerated its military campaign, taking control of the capital Kabul on August 15. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that “American soldiers left the Kabul airport, and our nation got its full independence”.