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Tuesday 31 August 2021 12:18 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 05 November 2021 11:59 am

Dominic Raab denies pushing to leave Kabul airport gate open before blast

By: Michiel Willems

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The UK government coordinated closely with the United States and did not push to keep a gate open at Kabul airport where a suicide bomber killed 13 US troops and scores of Afghan civilians, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said today. Watch the full report.

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