Withdrawal timeline: Who is responsible for the chaos in Afghanistan?
After the fall of Kabul, many across the United States are trying to piece together what went wrong.
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Joe Biden needlessly abandoned the Afghan people – and Britain stood idly by
In the worst foreign policy failure since the Suez crisis, the UK has desperately lacked the speed and decisiveness required.
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What the Taliban’s victory means for Afghanistan and the world
The repercussions of the fall of the Afghan state will be felt for years to come.
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The UK government must repair its disastrous refugee policy
We are retreating from Afghanistan with one hand and closing the door to anyone who might want to do the…
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Diary: Witnessing the last days of Ashraf Ghani’s Afghanistan
As Taliban forces enter Kabul, foreign correspondent Lynne O'Donnell reports on the horrors following in their wake.
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The Afghan government’s collapse is a humiliation for the United States and Joe Biden
The US president’s insistence that the Taliban would not retake Afghanistan was disastrously complacent.
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Afghanistan is at a perilous tipping point
The speed of the Taliban advance means that the best the Afghan government can hope for is a slightly stronger…
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In Afghanistan, a reviled president is being exposed as powerless
The Afghan state is not so much collapsing before our eyes as revealing itself as a fiction.
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