US military plans are doing rapid diving combat landings at Kabul airport to beat the threat of a missile attack, with video showing a French jet deploying flares designed to confuse heat-seeking technology.
Mary-Ellen McGroarty, the UN s World Food Programme s country director for Afghanistan, said an already horrendous situation is just going to become an absolute catastrophe .
Sir Laurie Bristow has been widely praised for helping thousands of UK citizens evacuate Afghanistan after it was taken over by the Taliban following the terror group s seizure of Kabul.
A Taliban official has said that group commanders are preparing to meet former Government officials to seek cooperation and that they are not forcing them to join or show allegiance.