Parliament members ask if the companies will be excluded from the Global Gateway Business Advisory Board ‘within the context of de-risking from China’.
The International Assistance Mission (IAM) in Afghanistan says it is "working together with the UN and ACBAR, the coordinating body for NGOs in Afghanistan," to seek the release of 18 staff members it says were detained by the Taliban without explanation from its Ghor Province premises.
The Pentagon's Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces' chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped.