All news on the topic: Taliban

Labour candidate Rohullah Yakobi, who is challenging Tory MP Mark Pritchard for The Wrekin, was powerless to stop his baby brother starving to death in his native Afghanistan. Thirty years on, he's determined to stop children in the UK from going hungry

The Afghan women’s national team fled the country when the Taliban took over in 2021. FIFA, yielding to the country's football federation, no longer recognizes the team who will miss their second major tournament this summer

Ex-'dark tourist' Andrew Drury, 58, told danger zone vloggers "don't do it" if their only motivation for travelling to some of the world's riskiest places is to try and gain online clout

MPs have rejected an amendment to the Safety of Rwanda Bill which would see Afghan nationals who helped British troops fighting the Taliban exempted from flights

The Islamic State in the Khorasan – or ISK – has a multi-million pound war chest, up to 6,000 fighters, and unlimited access to weapons, and has slaughtered hundreds across Asia since 2021

ROYAL Marine amputee Ben McBean was yesterday stripped of his blue badge — and fumed: “I don’t understand how much more disabled I need to be.

Former Home Secretary Ken Clarke is the latest Margaret Thatcher-era Tory grandee to hit out at the Rwanda Bill, which he told the House of Lords is 'extremely dangerous'

Aditya Verma, 20, who is now studying at Bath University, told his pals in a private Snapchat group: “On my way to blow up the plane, I’m a member of the Taliban”

Aditya Verma, 20, is facing a fine and compensation bill worth at least £100,000 for what he described as a 'moment of madness' and a ‘joke’ made on holiday

Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons

The notorious cleric Abu Hamza claims he should be released from Colorado’s supermax prison ADX Florence - known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies - under compassionate grounds

The Ministry of Defence has been given a fine of £350,000 for a data breach in which it revealed the personal details of 265 people who were fleeing the Talibans in Afghanistan

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British aid worker Ian Purchase, 50, who was held hostage in solitary confinement by the Taliban for five months has told how the mental battle was hardest to deal with in his cell

After being jailed for five years and placed on the sex offender's register, the Upper Tribunal court allowed the now-freed man's appeal to remain in the UK on human rights grounds

Tracy Schandler Walder worked with the CIA’s counter-terrorism unit on the day of the 911 attack. Now she has opened up on her feelings of guilt, saying: “I have no other words other than ‘I’m sorry’”

More than 30 of the former British Council teachers are still in hiding in Afghanistan, while another 50 are trapped in cramped hotels after fleeing across the border to Pakistan

Biden and Sunak are right to show disgust at the Hamas atrocities and back Israel’s right to defend itself. But they should also show sympathy for the guiltless Palestinians dying in the current conflict

Elham Barakzai escaped Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in 2021. She thanks the people who helped her to adapt to life in a strange new country and wants to help others by working as a GP

UN aid specialist Kevin Cornwell, who suffered from a life-threatening illness during his captivity, was set free along with 'extreme tourist' YouTuber Miles Routledge

Sabir Zazai, chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, told a Labour Party Conference event that if he arrived now he would be 'threatened with Rwanda' and 'treated like a criminal'

Miles Routledge, 23, who goes by Lord Miles on YouTube, was arrested for withdrawing $1000 from a Western Union back in March and had not been heard from until this week

Anthony Malone was tortured by the Taliban and suffered six broken ribs, kidney disease, nerve damage and serious concussion.He has now been named the English Veterans Awards' ‘Inspiration of the Year’

FROM Albert Square to Afghanistan, Ross Kemp has seen it all.The Bafta-winning star, who made his name playing hardman Grant Mitchell on BBC soap East