Month: August 2021

The Daily Mail says: ISIS have claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks on Kabul airport that killed 13 US solders and 60 Afghan civilians.

The Guardian says hundreds of Britons have offered to host Afghan refugees in their homes since the UK government started evacuation flights after the fall of Kabul.

The Daily Mail: An animal charity boss stuck in Afghanistan with 200 dogs and cats said his ‘mission’ to get them and his 25 staff and their families out of the country has been unsuccessful and he is now likely to have to leave the country on his own.

The Daily Mirror says: The UK airlift out of Kabul will end in hours after Britain shut the airport’s gates to new arrivals in the early hours today.

The twin bomb attacks at Kabul airport, which targeted people trying to flee the country after the Taliban takeover, features across the front pages.

The Daily Mirror says: President Joe Biden has vowed revenge on the terrorists who killed US troops and Afghan civilians – including children – in a devastating twin bombing in Afghanistan.

Refugees and US Marines were murdered side by side, says the i. The paper adds that the UK and US will continue with the airlifts but the final British flight from Kabul could depart on Friday.

The Daily Mirror says: The family of a British man killed in the 9/11 terror attacks is demanding a new inquest, claiming the Twin Towers were blown up from inside.

The Guardian reports the explosions took place among frantic crowds trying to leave Afghanistan. It says one of the bombs was near a hotel where the British embassy is based

The Daily Mirror says: On October 20, 2000, Phyllis Porter got a knock on the door that would change her life. She answered the door to find two Mirror reporters who had come to tell her that she had just won a million pounds.