UK Government ministers accused of being 'missing in action' over Afghanistan withdrawal

Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting has released a new song that’s highly critical of the United States’ withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan.  The Grammy-nominated artist penned his new track "Blood On My Hands" shortly after learning of the suicide bombing in Kabul that left 13 U.S.

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on Twitter back in March, citing the show’s other cast members and writers with connections to Afghanistan.“It’s actually quite fortunate. Because it’s my show I can make sure that it is written and produced by Afghans and Muslims,” he said at the time.

military veteran who served in Afghanistan had taken their own life in recent days because of their feelings over what had happened there. During a round of broadcast interviews this morning Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told Sky News he was aware of at least one former soldier who had taken their life "in the last week or so" in the wake of the takeover by the Taliban.

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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.

letter, which was initially created by Arts for Afghanistan on August 24. “Like Afghan journalists, activists, and citizens who have assisted the US, cultural workers face threats to their lives because of the work they’ve done—and they are unlikely to get out of the country without immediate changes to Washington’s approach to granting visas and providing flights.”Using a Google Doc, the letter’s creators opened it up to individual signers.

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.

Sir Laurie Bristow, who had been processing those fleeing the country at the airport until the last moment, was among those who landed at RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire on Sunday morning. Ian Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, urged Boris Johnson's government to do more to support Afghan refugees and those at risk of violence under the Taliban regime.

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

“So America is no longer the world’s policeman, we’re the world’s student loan officer,” said Bill Maher tonight of Joe Biden’s pledge to “hunt you down and make you pay” the perpetrators of yesterday’s horrific attack outside Kabul Airport.

The UK Government’s Minister for Media and Data, John Whittingdale, waged battle with UK TV professionals over the future of Channel 4 at this year’s Closing Debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

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.

Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose credits include 2019 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight pic The Orphanage, has successfully fled Kabul, according to her Danish producers Adomeit Film.

The chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal has led to “no good options” for the US, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on ABC’s This Week show on Sunday.

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Afghanistan told a protest of his disgust over the chaotic Allied withdrawal from the country. Paul Sweeney, whose best friend Bobby Hetherington was killed in Helmand, said there had been so much sacrificed by so many and it now felt in vain.Sweeney was addressing a protest in Glasgow, organised by the Afghan Human Rights Foundation and the Glasgow Stop the War Coalition. Hundreds of people held up placards demanding “no more war” and “Afghan refugees welcome here”.He said: “I felt numb