Taliban
The Taliban's sudden takeover appears to have undone 20 years of western involvement in a matter of weeks.
The Taliban have seized power in two weeks before the US was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war.
Kabul airport is now one of the only places where Afghans can flee the country.
People were seen clinging to the outside of planes and scaling barbed-wire walls in an attempt to flee Afghanistan as Taliban militants took over.
The president’s speech captured the futility of prolonging the US mission but offered little reflection on how America created the conditions for the Taliban to repress millions of Afghans.
Foreign secretary did not rule out sanctions against Afghanistan if the Taliban did not uphold human rights commitments.
The Taliban has taken control of the country as foreign forces arrange a hasty exit.
There are reports Afghans have fallen from aircraft as they takeoff from Kabul airport.
The activist, who survived a Taliban attack, called for urgent humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
The US military has taken over Afghanistan’s airspace as it struggles to manage a chaotic evacuation after the Taliban rolled into the capital.