Dominic Raab says numbers depend on ‘the window’ of opportunity; ‘we are determined to complete this mission’, says US President; reports emerge that US has started to take some of the 6,000 troops out of country
- Boris Johnson fails to persuade US to extend Kabul exit deadline
- Thousands of at-risk Afghans in danger of being left behind by UK
- Taliban close airport road to Afghans to block their evacuation
- Biden pours salt into wounds of relations with Europe at G7 meeting
- How the west will try to sway the Taliban
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Afghanistan’s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said, just days after a video of her burning class records to avoid Taliban recriminations was widely shared on social media.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who escaped Kabul with 250 students and staff, urged the world to “not avert your eyes” from the millions of girls left behind.
Related: ‘Don’t avert your eyes’: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls’ education
In this week’s Guardian Weekly, as critics round on President Joe Biden’s abrupt handling of the US pullout from Kabul in particular, our world affairs editor Julian Borger asks whether the fall of Kabul signals the end of the long era of American interventionism – and if so, what will take its place?
Then, Guardian correspondents Jason Burke and Emma Graham-Harrison – both of whom have reported extensively from Afghanistan – examine what the takeover signifies for Islamist extremism around the world, and how far the Afghan Taliban’s claims to be a more tolerant ruling force than before can be taken at face value.
Related: So long, America: Inside the 27 August Guardian Weekly
