EU foreign policy boss brands fall of Kabul ‘catastrophe’ and ‘nightmare’

Taliban fighters patrol in Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

The European Union’s foreign policy chief called the fall of Afghanistan’s capital and the resurgence of the Taliban “a catastrophe” and “nightmare” that laid bare a failure of intelligence and trans-Atlantic cooperation.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell further criticised US President Joe Biden for underplaying the commitment to nation-building in Afghanistan.