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• Politics and society • Medicine and health • Education • Tech and engineering • Environment • Business and economy • • Science • Design and architecture • Covid-19 • • Politics and society • Medicine and health • Education • Tech and engineering • Environment • Business and economy • • Science • Design and architecture • Covid-19 • Home • Podcasts • A Different Lens • About • Contact us • Subscribe Twenty years ago, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the 11 September attacks with a simple mission – to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership, and remove the Taliban government that had sheltered them. That mission has ended in abject failure. Its costs have been significant –41 combat-related deaths, 260 wounded, more than 500 veteran suicides, thousands afflicted by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and about A$10 billion expended, with precious little to show for it. Uruzgan Province, the centre of Australian operations from July 2006 until the main Australian Defence Force troops withdrew in December 2013, fell to the Taliban in early August with scarcely a shot fired. All those years spent equipping, training and mentoring the Afghan National Army to stand up and fight for the gains made since 2001 had clearly achieved nothing. But the failures don’t end there. Over the past weeks, there’s been a great deal of hand-wringing about the potential loss of the gains made in Afghanistan in the 20 years between the Taliban rul...

Australian citizens and visa holders prepare to board the Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft, as Australian Army infantry personnel provide security and assist with cargo, at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 22, 2021. SGT Glen McCarthy/ Australia's Department of Defence/Handout via REUTERS. CANBERRA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Australia has stopped evacuation flights from Afghanistan after Islamic State suicide bombers killed scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. military personnel in attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. Morrison said Australia's military personnel had been evacuated from Kabul just hours before the attacks, and with security so precarious it was no longer safe to continue evacuations. "Our plan now moves into its post evacuation stage and that involves ensuring the process of returning, through our official humanitarian program," Morrison told reporters in Canberra. While some governments, like Australia, have halted evacuation flights, a Western security official at the airport said evacuation operations had been accelerated after the overnight attacks. The official said flights were taking off regularly from the airport, where thousands of Afghans have gathered, desperate to flee the country since the Taliban take over. Morrison acknowledged some Australian visa holders remain in Afghanistan, though he said Canberra did not know exact numbers. While the Unite...

Australia ran four flights into Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday night, evacuating more than 300 people, including Australians, Afghan visa holders, New Zealanders, US and British citizens, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday. The news came after the United States and Germany told their citizens in Afghanistan to avoid travelling to Kabul airport, citing security risks as thousands tried to flee almost a week after the Taliban took control. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. “We will continue to run those flights, working together with our partners and our allies,” Morrison told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) Insiders program on Sunday. “We are uplifting not just Australians and Afghan visa holders for Australia, but those from the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.” This handout photo taken and received from the Australian Defence Force on August 20, 2021 shows the first Australian citizens and visa holders evacuated from Afghanistan disembarking at Perth International Airport from a government-sponsored charter flight. (AFP) The Australian government has now Last week, about 8,000 people were flown from Afghanistan on flights organized by the United States, United Kingdom and European Union countries. The first flight to bring evacuees from Kabul to Australia landed in Perth on Friday night, bringing Australians, Afghan visa holders and family members, including women and children, Foreign Affai...