By Hans-Edzard Busemann and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) -Images of throngs trying to flee Kabul are shameful for Western nations, Germany s president said on Tuesday, as desperate people clamoured at the airport after the Taliban takeover. We are experiencing a human tragedy for which we share responsibility, said President Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the Western-backed government in Kabul collapsed https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/evacuation-flights-resume-kabul-airport-biden-defends-us-withdrawal-2021-08-17 and its foreign-trained security forces melted away. Germany, which had the second largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States, wants to airlift thousands of German-Afghan dual nationals as well as rights activists, lawyers and people who worked with foreign forces. The images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West, Steinmeier, whose post is largely ceremonial, said in a statement at the German presidential palace. All the mo
The Taliban must not let Afghanistan become a breeding ground for terrorism again, NATO said on Tuesday, warning that the alliance after its withdrawal still has the military power to strike any terrorist group from a distance.
President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of chaos in Kabul that exposed the limits of U.S. power and plunged him into the worst crisis of his presidency.
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