Daily Mail

The Daily Mail reports that Britain has just 48 hours to get thousands of Afghans out of Kabul after the Taliban rejected a deadline extension request.

The Daily Mail leads with “yet another day of Kabul chaos”.

The Daily Mail writes that Boris Johnson will plead with Joe Biden to delay the US withdrawal from Afghanistan amid fears mercy flights will be halted within 48 hours.  

The Daily Mail leads with the efforts of British troops to control crowds at Kabul airport amid fears the rescue mission could collapse in days, leaving thousands behind.

The Daily Mail says Dominic Raab’s job is “hanging by a thread” as it emerged that a crucial call to save British translators’ lives in Afghanistan was delegated to a junior minister.

The Daily Mail reports that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was “too busy” to make the phone call required to get urgent help airlifting vulnerable translators out of Afghanistan.

Terrified Afghan interpreters have been in hiding near Kabul airport – as dozens of others were airlifted to Britain, claims the Daily Mail. It reports the trapped translators said militant gunmen wanted to kill them before they could board RAF mercy flights.

The families of more than 457 British heroes who sacrificed their lives are asking what they died for after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the Daily Mail reports.

Plymouth gunman Jake Davison had been “stripped of his shotgun licence before police handed it back last month”, the Daily Mail reports.