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🔴 Several rockets have been fired at Kabul's airport, less than 48 hours before the US is due to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

As many as 5 rockets were intercepted by the US anti-missile system

Follow the latest news from Afghanistan ⬇️
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🔴On Sunday, a US drone strike killed several Islamic State suicide bombers on their way to carry out a second attack on Kabul airport.

Nine civilians from one family, including six children, were killed in the strike, a witness told CNN

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🔴Images have emerged of a destroyed car with a launcher system still visible in the back seat.

A suspected US drone strike hit the car, about two kilometres from Kabul airport

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Pen Farthing has said there were "several empty seats" on his evacuation flight with around 170 dogs and cats from an animal shelter in Afghanistan.

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One minister told The @Telegraph:

“The diplomatic effort has been slightly flat-footed. We should have been further down this road by now. There’s a big job of work to be done in the region and it’s frustrating it’s not more advanced.”

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Britain has received “assurances” from the Taliban that anybody wishing to leave Afghanistan after August 31 will be granted “safe passage” to do so

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Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said:

"We will judge the Taliban by their actions. They have made certain commitments...about facilitating exit"

🗣️"We are sceptical about those commitments but we will continue working with them to an extent"

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Pen Farthing has admitted his emotions "got the better" of him when he told a Government aide he would "destroy you" amid the Afghanistan airlift.

🗣️"I was at the lowest point I could possibly be."

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🔴 In pictures: The final British troops arrive back from Afghanistan

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The latest from The @Telegraph's senior foreign correspondent @RolandOliphant ⬇️
📈Opium prices have reportedly spiked in some parts of Afghanistan as the Taliban vow to crack down on poppy production

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🔴Labour has accused the UK Government of an "unforgivable" failure to evacuate thousands of eligible Afghans and facilitate overland exit routes for their escape.

"Government ministers have had 18 months to prepare for this"

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🔴As Western evacuation efforts wind up, the UN refugee agency has warned "a larger crisis is just beginning", with up to 500k Afghans at risk of fleeing by the end of this year

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🔴 NEW: Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Kabul airport less than 48 hours before the US is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

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The UK is a "long way" from offering diplomatic recognition to the Taliban, said a Foreign Office minister.

🔴James Cleverly said the Taliban would be judged on its actions as an intensive round of diplomacy began in Washington and at the UN

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🔴The final US departure from Kabul airport is under way and "core diplomatic staff" have departed

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The Taliban's caretaker higher education minister has said Afghanistan's national curriculum will be purged of elements which conflict with Islam.

❌Co-education will also be effectively banned, with men not allowed to teach girls

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🔴Ten members of one family were killed in a US drone strike that targeted suspected Islamic State suicide bombers heading to Kabul airport, relatives have claimed
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🗣️"Nobody in the British government facilitated my entry into the airport. I did that with the Taliban," Pen Farthing has said
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The US has evacuated more than 122,000 people from Afghanistan during its airlift from Kabul airport.

The Pentagon has warned there remains an "active threat" to security in the area
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🚨 NEW: The UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has vowed to defeat Islamic State cells "by all means available"
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