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UK army officers tell of 'chaotic' Afghan evacuation

04/09/2021 GMT

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Afghanistan: British Army officers tell of 'chaotic' evacuation operation

The inside story of the Kabul airport evacuation from the British troops that were there in the wake of a suicide bomb attack. The senior British commander on the ground in Kabul has been speaking for the first time about the UK's evacuation operation from Afghanistan.

Women, education and NGOs under the Taleban in Afghanistan.  What are the chances of some of the norms established in the past twenty years continuing?

And prescribing museum visits for people's mental health during the pandemic.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are Mary Fitzgerald, a writer, researcher and consultant specialising in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya, and Afzal Ashraf, terrorism expert and a visiting fellow at the University of Nottingham.

(Photo: Brigadier James Martin. Credit: BBC)

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