'We're all as an international community paying the consequences of that.' Defence Secretary Ben Wallace tells KayBurley that the US decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan has caused 'a lot of problems'. More on this developing story here:
The British ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, will remain in Kabul but will relocate to a more secure location.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last night - telling him the US"remains invested in the security and stability of Afghanistan".This is fast becoming a chaotic end to America's 20-year presence in Afghanistan as 3,000 troops are rushed in to facilitate the extraction of US embassy personnel from the capital, Kabul.
Intelligence officials here suggested privately in June that Kabul could be taken within six months. The timeline was later revised to 90 days, but the current situation and the lack of resistance being put up in many areas to repel the Taliban means it could be taken even sooner than that. The momentum now is solely with the Taliban and it is almost certainly already too late to reverse their gains.
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