It’s not too late to prevent a bloodbath
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board outlines a rescue plan for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
PM flags rescue mission for Afghan angels
Scott Morrison says Australia is engaging with its allies about the upcoming mission as the Taliban sweeps further towards Kabul.
US President blames Trump for ‘Biden’s Saigon’
Joe Biden says the likely Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable given the parlous state of Afghan army.
Taliban race closer to complete Afghan takeover
The Taliban has captured Jalalabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, leaving only the isolated capital Kabul for them to conquer.
President vows to stop bloodshed as Taliban close in
Australia will reportedly begin evacuations from Kabul as early as this week. The Afghanistan President has spoken to his nation as the Taliban continue a sweeping offensive.
Afghanistan’s layers of darkness
The Taliban’s advance on Kabul is looming as a turning point.
Taliban ‘are coming to kill us’ when city falls
Hundreds who worked with Australian forces ‘will be killed by the Taliban’ when Tarin Kowt falls, local leader warns.
Taliban rejected power-sharing deal
The US and Britain on Friday ordered the deployment of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their nationals.
Trump and Biden share the blame
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board says Donald Trump and Joe Biden share responsibility for the looming defeat in Afghanistan.
New wave feminists abandon Muslim sisters
Their silence is a stain on feminism’s towering and transformative power as revolutionary movement.
Taliban muster for mass attack to take Kandahar
The Taliban have massed on the outskirts of Kandahar in preparation for an all-out assault to recapture the city.
Aussie media mogul takes on Taliban
The Australian entrepreneur who founded Afghanistan’s first television network has begun enacting contingency plans to keep broadcasting in the event Kabul falls to the Taliban.
Kremlin offers help in Taliban fight
The Kremlin has unexpectedly offered Washington the use of its military bases in Central Asia to gather intelligence about the Taliban advances in Afghanistan.
Brutality re-engulfs Afghanistan
Even the gloomiest forecasts did not predict the speed, scale or brutality of the Taliban’s takeover and the collapse of the Western-trained Afghan National Army.
Taliban returns to the ‘dark age’
It was only a matter of days after the Taliban swept into Roya Sojod’s district in northern Afghanistan that it reverted to the ‘dark age’ of its rule.
How to pluck victory from Afghanistan
It’s possible that our withdrawal, shameful though it appears, will be as beneficial for the West as it is disastrous for those left behind.
Is history doomed to repeat itself?
President Joe Biden’s effort to put a positive spin on the US exit from Afghanistan has a familiar ring to it.
Taliban lay siege to cities as forces run out of guns
Fighters encircle ten cities across Afghanistan as government forces buckle under insurgents’ push to recapture country after the US troop withdrawal.
We can’t cope: Afghans’ plea to Europe
Afghanistan has urged European countries to halt forced deportations of Afghan refugees for the next three months, as security forces battle a wave of Taliban violence.
Last Diggers exit Kabul under shroud of secrecy
Little more than a century after the last Anzacs left Gallipoli under the cover of darkness, the final troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan under a blackout of a different kind.
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