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The death toll in Lahaina is expected to rise in what the deadliest US blaze in a century. Plus: press freedom outcry over police raid of small Kansas newspaper

Two years on, people who worked in the country’s now-defunct legal system remain in grave danger from reprisals for their work

Two years since the Taliban seized power, thousands of female fugitives still live in fear and poverty, with a target on their backs

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, as U

After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no significant opposition that could topple them

The current cohort of Afghan Chevening students say they are stuck in limbo and face the possibility of having to return home.

An Afghan higher education official says universities are ready to welcome back female students but the Taliban supreme leader has to give the order for their return first

Analyst is a ‘talented and hardworking individual’ who is ‘a likely target for the Taliban’

Exclusive: MPs and top brass intervene as government deadline for giving sanctuary to Afghans looms

The dramatic and rapid Taliban offensive in the spring of 2021 culminated in its takeover of Kabul on August 15. The chaos of the western withdrawal that surrounded the return of the Taliban represented a sad endpoint of two decades of failed US-led attempts to impose a liberal democratic system…

A man has been jailed for the murder of a 20-year-old Afghan refugee in an east London park six years ago.