Taliban fighters seized a province just south of Afghanistan s capital and launched a multi-pronged assault on Mazar-e-Sharif, a major city in the north defended by powerful former warlords, today.
Sir Keir Starmer has warned the Afghanistan crisis undermines the legacy of British soldiers and raises the terror threat as he suggests Britain cannot turn our backs on the country.
The conflict in Afghanistan is escalating amid the ongoing withdrawal of US troops from the country, raising the prospect of a new rise of the Taliban.