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Memo by military police chief said there was ‘no shortage of detractors’ in Whitehall of elite unit’s conductSenior figures in Downing Street were calling in 2016 for the SAS to have its “wings clipped” as it emerged that a growing number of suspected …
Read MoreAnother 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last weekA powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people a…
Read MoreRewards offered for turning in ‘illegal Afghans’ as refugees pay price for tensions between Pakistani government and TalibanAamir Muhammad has barely left his house for weeks; neither have his neighbours. In his ramshackle neighbourhood on the outskirt…
Read MoreCasualties from levelled villages in Afghanistan’s quake-stricken province look for help from a health system already stretched too thinEven before the earthquake in Afghanistan on Saturday that reduced villages and hamlets across the western province …
Read MoreAnother deadly earthquake in western Afghanistan has increased the death toll to more than 3,000 people, according to Taliban officials. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit an area 28km (17 miles) south of Herat’s regional capital and came after another e…
Read MoreOnce the site of legendary parties, the Intercontinental in Kabul is still a potent symbol of who rules Afghanistan – and what its future might holdAt the first barrier, a Talib smiles; he has orders to smile. At the second barrier, a sign: Weapons Han…
Read MoreHospitals are at capacity since the quakes occurred around the city of Herat, and the Taliban are ill-equipped to respond effectivelyAnother powerful earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, days after a series of quakes in the same …
Read MoreThe men were all detained over allegedly breaking the country’s laws earlier this yearFour British nationals who were held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan have been released and are to return to the UK on Tuesday.The Presidium Network, a British not-…
Read MorePeople spend second night in ruined villages where desperate search for loved ones is continuingSurvivors of a series of powerful earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan on Saturday have spent a second night sleeping amid the rubble of demolished v…
Read MoreFootage from Herat province shows destroyed villages and people retrieving bodies from the rubble after the magnitude 6.3 quake on Saturday killed hundreds and injured more than 10,000.Afghanistan is already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after t…
Read MorePublic inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims’ families pleas for truth to be uncoveredA public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday ami…
Read MoreMagnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Herat on Saturday, with hundreds of houses reported destroyedThe death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen sharply to more than 2,000 people, according to a Taliban spokesperson, as re…
Read MoreUN says estimate of 320 fatalities is being verified, although local authorities put the death toll at 100, with 500 injuredHundreds of people are feared dead after a series of powerful earthquakes hit western Afghanistan.The United Nations said more t…
Read MoreIslamabad seeks to assuage concerns as activists say any forced deportation of Afghans will put them at a grave riskPakistan’s foreign ministry has said it will carry out plans to deport all “illegal immigrants” – including 1.7 million Afghans – in a “…
Read MoreSimon Diggins, a former defence attaché to Kabul, suggests the UK should amend its Afghan civilian resettlement schemeZahra Joya’s moving piece reminds us that our interventions in Afghanistan created an expectation, and obligation, to support those wh…
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