President Biden’s decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan without conditions is a risk to western security, but more urgently still to Afghanistan’s people. None are more exposed than Afghan civilians who have served western military forces during their 20-year mission to thwart terrorism and Islamist extremism in the country, and in particular those who have helped western media organisations to report it.
A coalition of media organisations in Britain yesterday wrote to the prime minister and the foreign secretary stressing the need for a special visa programme to enable Afghan staff and their families to find sanctuary in Britain. The letter, organised principally by The Times and the Guardian, is signed by every main newspaper organisation in the country, as well as Sky
