Metro reports that a British paratrooper seen cradling a baby amid the mayhem at Kabul airport has said the iconic image shows what soldiers are doing “on a daily basis” to help families flee the Taliban.
The Metro leads with a story about a desperate mother handing her infant daughter to an American soldier in Kabul, as the Taliban continue to take hold of Afghanistan.
Metro criticises Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over their response to the chaos in Afghanistan, describing them as “asleep at the wheel”.
Metro has the headline ‘True Courage’ as it pictures Afghan women defending their rights at a protest in front of armed Taliban fighters.
The flight from hell – that’s on the front of the Metro, as Afghans die after clinging onto a US plane trying to take off in Kabul.
The Taliban has declared victory in Afghanistan after walking into the capital Kabul to proclaim a new Islamic emirate, the Metro reports.
A deployment of 600 UK troops to Afghanistan will evacuate an estimated 4,000 people, Metro reports.
The Metro warns of a “return to the dark ages” in Afghanistan as the Taliban sweep through the war-torn country.
Prince Andrew is “lying low” at the Queen’s Balmoral estate after a lawsuit was filed in the US accusing him of sexually abusing Virginia Giuffre when she was 17, the Metro reports on its front page.
Like the Financial Times, the Metro leads on the UN science panel’s “code red for humanity” warning, alongside a dramatic picture of wildfires on the Greek island of Evia.