Latest news from Afghanistan, live | EU and NATO address evacuation operations from Kabul airport

The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, and the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, discussed the evacuation operations from Kabul airport on Monday. "I addressed in a phone call with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg the latest developments and the situation in Afghanistan, including access to the Kabul airport and evacuation operations," Borrell said on Twitter. On Tuesday, the EU foreign ministers will address the Afghan crisis in an extraordinary meeting. This Monday, US President Joe Biden justified the departure from Afghanistan, amid scenes of chaos at the Kabul airport after the fall of the Afghan capital to the Taliban."The US troops were not going to fight a war that the Afghan forces themselves were not willing to fight," he said from the White House. This Monday, the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, asked the international community for unity in the face of the "global terrorist threat" in Afghanistan. "We cannot and must not abandon the people of Afghanistan," he told the UN Security Council, which was meeting urgently for the situation. Hundreds of people have crammed onto the Kabul airport runway, where at least five people have been killed trying to get on a plane to flee, Reuters reports.has called for unity from the international community in the face of the "global terrorist threat" in Afghanistan. "We cannot and must not abandon the people of Afghanistan," he told the UN Security Council, which was meeting urgently for the situation. Hundreds of people have crammed onto the Kabul airport runway, where at least five people have been killed trying to get on a plane to flee, Reuters reports.has called for unity from the international community in the face of the "global terrorist threat" in Afghanistan. "We cannot and must not abandon the people of Afghanistan," he told the UN Security Council, which was meeting urgently for the situation. Hundreds of people have crammed onto the Kabul airport runway, where at least five people have died trying to get on a plane to flee, Reuters reports.

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