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Australia sends 250 troops for rescue mission but ex-defence force chief says ‘we’ve just left it far too late’

ANALYSIS: The Taliban's lightning offensive to re-take areas of Afghanistan started in May, triggered by the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces.

OPINION. Le sentiment que les talibans pourraient reprendre le contrôle à l’a...

Women. malala yousafzai, for example, one of the foremost female advocates who was shot by the taliban at one point, she said... jacinda adern, when she came out here to talk about evacuating that nationals, she also brought up the plight of women and children who are of course going to suffer under taliban rule and she said she wants human rights upheld in afghanistan for women and children. ., ~ , ., , afghanistan for women and children. ., ~ , . children. thank you very much indeed. lets _ ch...

A desperate rescue mission is urgently being planned to rescue trapped and terrified Australian diplomats, journalists, aid workers and contractors, as Taliban fighters lays siege to the city of Kabul.

Thousands of government troops have surrendered or defected – handing over their arms to the Taliban – or have fled across Afghanistan’s borders to neighbouring countries. While Kabul is not believed to be in imminent danger of Taliban takeover, Nicholas Owens SC, for the newspapers, said it remained a matter of urgency the Afghan evidence was heard. There was, he said, “a real risk of the evidence of the Afghan witnesses becoming unavailable”. “There is an ongoing risk to people in...

An Afghan child looks on as Afghan National Army soldiers conduct a search / US Marine Corps Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of an almost unimaginable disaster. The withdrawal of US and allied forces, scheduled by President Joe Biden to be completed by September 11, threatens to precipitate the unravelling of the most pro-Western government in Southwest Asia. It also endangers the entire framework of the Afghan state that has been built up since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001...

Hazara man Namatullah Kadrie was only five years old when his family fled Afghanistan.  Twenty years have since passed, but he’s now more worried than ever about those they left behind given western forces are about to fully withdraw from the country. “We can’t do anything, but were worried sick about what will happen to them,” he told SBS News at his home in Melbourne. “Im very worried about what will happen to the Hazaras when the foreign forces completely leave Afghanistan. I thin...

You are here Home » News & events » All stories » On the brink of disaster: how decades of progress in Afghanistan could be wiped out in short order On the brink of disaster: how decades of progress in Afghanistan could be wiped out in short order 09 July 2021 Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of an almost unimaginable disaster. The withdrawal of US and allied forces, scheduled by President Joe Biden to be completed by September 11, threatens to precipitate the unravelling of the...

While the UK announces a plan to speed up repatriation of Afghan translators and support staff before Western troops withdraw, Australian politicians are sitting on their hands.