'We wasted our time' Double amputee Scots war hero's fury over withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan

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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The last U.S. military flight left Kabul’s international airport, marking an end to nearly 20 years of occupation in Afghanistan.

Ibrox yesterday. Officers from Police Scotland have now launched an investigation into the march which was posted on social media before the crunch match between Rangers and Celtic on Sunday.

UK Government ministers of being "missing in action" during the Afghanistan crisis as the blame game over the handling of the withdrawal after a 20-year campaign in the country began. Fingers were being pointed at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) over a lack of escape routes from the country, with claims that up to 9,000 people who may have been eligible to escape - such as women, journalists, and aid workers - were left behind.

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“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.

Veterans turned out in force to attend the funeral of a former Scottish Royal Marine who was saved from having a pauper's funeral by a public appeal. Veteran John Harley Campbell, known as Ian, died at the age of 78 on July 14 and it was thought he would be given an unmarked grave.

Facebook video appearing to show a pal giving her baby daughter a drink from a glass wine bottle. The woman, who cannot be identified, sparked fury online after the shocking footage went viral.

Afghanistan in 2009 but died suddenly, in his sleep, in January. David’s partner, Liane Brophy, said he was convinced he’d been spared in the explosion in Helmand so they could bring their child into the world.

Angelina Jolie is deeply unhappy with the current situation in Afghanistan after the U.S. abruptly withdrew troops, resulting in chaos and anarchy as the government fell to the Taliban within days, and she shared her thoughts in an op-ed she wrote for Time.

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.

In a mini-publicity blitz amid dramatic news coverage and skeptical questions about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden’s White House turned to ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for his first exclusive media interview on the topic.

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

Ellise Shafer administratorDonald Trump is making his views known on President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.In an interview with Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Tuesday night, the former president called Biden’s handling of the situation “the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country.”Just two weeks before the U.S.

On Monday’s episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert ripped “the Band-Aid” off, dedicating his entire opening monologue to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, and the United States’ withdrawal.

Facing the first foreign policy fiasco of his administration so far, President Joe Biden addressed the nation and the world today on the situation in Afghanistan and the return of the horrific Taliban to power.