Biden has ‘contingency plan’ if Afghanistan evacuation misses deadline
Joe Biden has been accused of signing the death warrants of Afghans who have helped the US after he refused to extend his 31 August deadline for withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan.
The American president said his personnel faced an increasing risk of attacks by Isis suicide bombers, adding: “The sooner we finish, the better.” But Republicans said the crisis represented a “colossal failure” of leadership.
Mr Biden’s G7 allies and other world leaders fear that thousands of people vulnerable to Afghanistan’s returning theocratic rulers will be left behind. For its part, the Taliban has begun blocking access to Kabul airport, preventing escape.
Opinion: Boris Johnson’s ‘global Britain’ is obsolete after US Afghanistan response
Joe Biden’s rebuff to Boris Johnson over Afghanistan proves that the “global Britain” strategy the prime minister set out only five months ago is already obsolete, writes Andrew Grice.
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