Afghanistan: Dominic Raab heading for region as he avoids MPs' questions on holiday timing

Dominic Raab at a committee hearing on Wednesday, said: “The reality is, of course, this isn’t the end of a war, this is a change of nature, a change of style, a change of combatants perhaps even, but it is not the end.” With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the horizon, Tugendhat said the the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was “the beginning of a new stage of chaos”.He said: “Because the Taliban is not a single entity. and so nationally this is not over.

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Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

Get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterBoris Johnson has resumed his summer break which was interrupted by the fall of Kabul but Downing Street has insisted the Prime Minister is “continuing to work”.As the last British troops left Kabul on Sunday, Boris Johnson left London with his family for Somerset in the west of England .Despite being away from Downing Street No 10 officials insisted he was still at work.The Prime Minister’s Official

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham spoke out on CBS political talk show Face The Nation today, saying that the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan “set the conditions for another 9/11.”

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe recent horrors in Afghanistan have once more exposed the callousness with which too many residents of Europe and the U.S. speak of refugees, whereby displaced human lives become numbers, coldly counted and ranked on a long list of national priorities: not people to be saved, but problems to be solved.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefI know there’s a lot going on in Hollywood right now, but to me the most vital and urgent news is unfolding in Afghanistan, where women and journalists are under siege, fighting for their rights and their lives with the Taliban again ruling the nation.In the immediate aftermath of the extremists reclaiming the capital of Kabul on Aug.

Afghanistan was unfolding. The Foreign Secretary has come under criticism and calls for him to resign over his handling of the situation in Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power.

an Blackford MP, the SNP Westminster leader, said that it would be “unacceptable” for parliament to remain in recess for another fortnight, while UK armed forces and personnel were putting their lives on the line at Kabul. Johnson faced a hostile reception from across a packed House of Commons last week when MPs were recalled for a one-off session to debate the deteriorating situation at Kabul airport.

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Foreign Secretary was reportedly "unavailable" when officials in his department suggested he "urgently" call Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar on August 13 - two days before the Taliban marched on Kabul - to arrange help for those who supported British troops. It was initially reported the Afghan Foreign Ministry refused to arrange a call with a junior minister, pushing it back to the next day.

announced Tuesday afternoon that its employees made it out of Afghanistan safely. It’s not known if this or the evacuation of the Times’ personnel involved help from the Biden administration.The small bit of good news comes during a chaotic and absolutely uncertain time in Afghanistan, which was abandoned by its government just as U.S.

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Labour MPs have hit out at the Foreign Secretary over the government's response to the crisis in Afghanistan. The Daily Mail reported that the said Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office officials suggested Raab call Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar on Friday - two days before the Taliban marched on Kabul - only for him to be "unavailable" while on holiday.

Afghanistan, was applauded after an emotional speech in which he spoke about his “grief, anger and rage” over the swift victory of the Taliban. Tugendhat laid the blame for the foreign affairs disaster squarely at the door of the White House, after President Biden refused to reverse the US decision to pull soldiers out, while blaming his predecessor Donald Trump for signing a peace deal and Afghans soldiers for failing to fight.