Suhail Shaheen called the BBC‘s Yalda Hakim, live on air.
In the wide-ranging interview, she pressed him on the Taliban‘s plans for the country amid concern the militants will impose strict interpretations of Sharia law, including corporal punishments and a ban on girls going to school.
Nach Schüssen am Internationalen Flughafen von Kabul ist der kommerzielle Luftverkehr dort offenbar eingestellt worden. Das meldet die Nachrichtenagentur AP unter Berufung auf US-Militärkreise. Nach wie vor werden demnach aber Menschen mit Militärmaschinen in Sicherheit gebracht.
Die Präsidentschafts- und Parlamentswahlen sowie das Verfassungsreferendum in Haiti sollen am 7. November dieses Jahres stattfinden. Vor der Ermordung von Präsident Jovenel Moïse am 7. Juli waren sie für den 26. September geplant, wurden wegen des anhaltenden politischen Chaos jedoch verschoben.
– A Taliban spokesman says their fighters have been ordered to enter the city to prevent looting
– Reports from Kabul say the Taliban have seized the presidential palace
– Earlier they were told to refrain from violence and allow safe passage for anyone wanting to leave
– Eyewitnesses say the militants met little resistance along the way to the capital
In a sign that the government had collapsed, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, confirmed in a video shared online.
The fall of Mazar-e-Sharif, the country‘s fourth-largest city, which Afghan forces and two powerful former warlords had pledged to defend, hands the insurgents control over all of northern Afghanistan, confining the Western-backed government to the centre and east.
(13.08.2021)
Did achieve something: 23%
Did not achieve anything: 53%
Don’t know: 24%
(30 May 2013)
Since 2006, on a conservative estimate, it has cost £15m a day to maintain Britain‘s military presence in Helmand province. The equivalent of £25,000 will have been spent for every one of Helmand‘s 1.5 million inhabitants, more than most of them will earn in a lifetime, it says.
By 2020, the author of a new book says, Britain will have spent at least £40bn on its Afghan campaign, enough to recruit over 5,000 police officers or nurses and pay for them throughout their careers. It could fund free tuition for all students in British higher education for 10 years.
(08.06.2021)
And the final cost is likely to be even higher because the bill disclosed by Defence Minister James Heappey only counts cash from a special Whitehall pot for the conflict.
Revealing the cost in a written parliamentary answer, Mr Heappey said: “As at May 2021, the total cost of Operation Herrick to HM Treasury Special Reserve is £22.2billion.”
Published by D. Clark, Sep 21, 2020
Between UK October 2001 to March 2020 there have been 454 fatalities of military and civilians for the United Kingdom in Afghanistan under Operation Herrick. The years with the most fatalities were 2009 and 2010, with both years seeing more than a hundred deaths.
(09.08.2021)
This support spans partisan affiliations, though larger majorities of Democrats (77%) and Independents (73%) than Republicans (56%) agree.
These results corroborate the findings of other polls conducted over the past several months.
(09.07.2021)
By contrast, 27 percent of respondents said they oppose the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, including 7 percent who strongly oppose and 20 percent who somewhat oppose.
(April 3, 2018)
Costs of War and UNAMA have counted 36,754 civilian deaths up to the end of 2017. If these (extremely) passive reports represent 5 percent of total civilian deaths, as in Guatemala, the actual death toll would be about 735,000. If UNAMA has in fact eclipsed Guatemala’s previously unsurpassed record of undercounting civilian deaths and only counted 3 or 4 percent of actual deaths, then the real total could be as high as 1.23 million. If the ratio were only the same as originally found in Iraq in 2006 (14:1 – before Iraq Body Count revised its figures), it would be only 515,000.
Adding these figures to my estimate of Afghan combatants killed on both sides, we can make a rough estimate that about 875,000 Afghans have been killed since 2001, with a minimum of 640,000 and a maximum of 1.4 million.
American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,448.
U.S. contractors: 3,846.
Afghan national military and police: 66,000.
Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.
The two-decade war has cost the US $2.26 trillion, according to researchers at Brown University.
That analysis doesn‘t include the costs of lifetime care for veterans or future interest on money the US borrowed for the war.
– Helicopter – believed to be US Air Force Chinook – seen flying over Kabul today from the US Embassy in Kabul
– It comes as Taliban closes in on the Afghan capital with shots heard on outskirts before fighters stormed city
– Around 3,000 US troops have been sent into city to aid with US evacuation, while British troops also deployed
– It is believed around 500 British staff needed to be evacuated and by Saturday the number was in ‚the tens‘
Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday and said they were awaiting a „peaceful transfer“ of the city after promising not to take it by force, but panicked residents raced to the leave, with workers fleeing government offices and helicopters landing at the U.S. Embassy.
Die Islamisten stießen von allen Seiten vor, teilte das Ministerium am Sonntag mit. Die Taliban sind nach eigenen Angaben noch nicht in die Stadt eingedrungen. Vielmehr verhandle man mit der afghanischen Regierung über eine friedliche Übergabe der Hauptstadt Kabul.