4 months into Taliban rule, Afghanistan is facing a looming economic meltdown and humanitarian catastrophe. Billions of dollars’ worth of country’s assets abroad, mostly in US, have been frozen and international funding to the country has ceased.
The regime change has severely affected the private sector as a large majority of local enterprises and international organizations remain closed since the Taliban's takeover.
In his address on Friday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the failure in Afghanistan shows military strength alone does not work, reports Xinhua news agency.
Defense Secy Lloyd Austin said the US was working with Taliban on a "very narrow set of issues", and it was just to get as many people out as they possibly could.
It comes after Taliban pledge to allow further departures. As per an official statement by the UK govt, over 17,000 people had been evacuated by the UK from Afghanistan so far.
2 suicide bomb attacks rocked Kabul airport in Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 103 people, including 13 US service members, and injuring 158 others.
Ardern said that no NZDF personnel were in Kabul at the time of explosions which occurred at the airport on Thursday as they had all safely departed on the final flight, reports Xinhua news agency.
2 suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport on Thursday, killing at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops.
"Our commitment to Afghanistan doesn't end when this current phase, this current deadline comes. We will continue to put pressure on the Taliban to allow people to leave the country," Trudeau said, Xinhua news agency reported.
Kabul: Nearly 30 people have been killed in Afghanistan in the past five days as the Afghan Taliban intensified its offensive across the war-torn country, Xinhua reported Thursday.Early Thursday morning, two armed militants were killed
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