Afghan staff details left behind at UK Kabul embassy: Report

UK defence secretary says ‘not good enough’ that documents identifying Afghan staff and job applicants were left behind.

The United Kingdom’s defence chief has promised to “get to the bottom of” a security lapse that saw documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants left behind at the abandoned British Embassy in Kabul. Times of London reporter Anthony Loyd said he found the papers scattered on the ground as he toured Kabul’s abandoned diplomatic district with a Taliban escort this week. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace on Friday said “clearly it’s not good enough” that the documents were left unsecured. He said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson “will be asking some questions” about what had happened.