The Latest Breaking News from Kabul

David Lammy said the first duty of any government ‘is to keep its people safe’.

Report by senior diplomat Rina Amiri raises concerns about number of ‘unjust detentions’ in Afghanistan

Ali Rahmani still cannot believe his family made it out of Afghanistan when they were forced to flee the Taliban. Six months later, they could not be more grateful to call Perth home, but memories of their homeland will always be tinged with trauma.

Immigration minister Alex Hawke argued the initial decision to send the asylum seeker back to Afghanistan should be upheld regardless of Taliban rule

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans. Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the…

Former BBC South Asia correspondent Andrew North has been released, the PA news agency understands.

Switzerland has raised concerns about human rights in Afghanistan, including about girls' education, in a meeting with the Taliban, a government spokesman said on Friday, as the new rulers in Kabul wrapped up a week of talks in Geneva.

UNHCR says the Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the  aid organization and a number of its Afghan staff in the capital, Kabul

Journalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCR

Andrew North, the former South Asia correspondent, has been captured along with several others.

Afghanistan's former Vice President Amrullah Saleh says nine people from western countries are among those taken by the group in the last few months.