Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Britain's crack troops landed in Afghanistan last night on an SOS mission to rescue thousands of stranded Brits.Elite soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade – the Army’s specially trained rapid reaction task force – were scrambled to Kabul as it fell to the Taliban.Gun-toting militants posed for photos inside the presidential palace and vowed to declare the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.President Ashraf Ghani was in hiding as Taliban chiefs called for a “peaceful transfer of power” and said there would be “no revenge” for two decades of Western rule since 9/11.But the group’s spokesman phoned the BBC live on air to state strict sharia law would be imposed.Every foreigner.
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