Rosanna Arquette slams 'GOP right wing extremists' in Taliban comparison: They 'support destroying democracy'

university professor tasked with ensuring Afghan girls continue to go to school has demanded ­international aid is used to negotiate with the Taliban. Former prime minister ­ Gordon Brown last week called for £5.7billion of support for ­education in the ­country to be overseen by Edinburgh ­University’s Liz Grant.

Naman Ramachandran Women filmmakers from Afghanistan made a powerful and emotional plea for international intellectual support at a panel at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.Fighting back tears, Sahraa Karimi, who wrote a hard-hitting open letter about the impact of her country being taken over again by the Taliban, did not mince her words about the current situation in the country.

wrote in its story on the man suspended from the helicopter that it was “not immediately clear exactly how he is attached or if he is alive.”In fact, he was alive. The video was posted from a now-suspended account, but another video of the same flight shows the man waving.

Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August. McDonald, the MP for Glasgow South, challenged Raab repeatedly to say when he had gone on holiday, but the Foreign Secretary would not respond.

Boris Johnson 's government for not doing their jobs in helping Pen Farthing's colleagues in Afghanistan. Sean Fletcher took aim at the efforts by the government during the evacuation process.

In the video, the host of “Pardaz” said that the Islamic Emirate — the name by which the Taliban refers to itself by — wants the public to “cooperate with it and should not be afraid.” BBC reporter Kian Sharifi says that the host then interviewed one of the Taliban fighters in the studio, though he was unable to translate the interview. The programme is called Pardaz.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was accused Saturday by a former spokesperson for Republican lawmakers of wanting to plunge the U.S.

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Blair, who ordered UK troops into Afghanistan 20 years ago, also claimed the crisis reveals the UK risks being relegated to “the second division of global powers”. The ex-Prime Minister said Britain has a “moral obligation” to stay until “all those who need to be are evacuated”.

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.