The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

The rare ruling is the latest twist in an ongoing legal battle between Afghan and US couples for three-year-old girl.

Matiullah Wesa, an advocate for girls’ education, is arrested as the Taliban cracks down on women’s rights activists.

Exclusive: Pilot who fought with coalition forces, fled the Taliban and arrived here by small boat tells his amazing story – as clamour to stop his deportation grows

The Afghan pilot describes how he was forced to leave his young family as his ‘very presence’ in their home put them at risk

Exclusive: Open letter begs Rishi Sunak to honour promise to help veterans like him, after he was forced to flee certain death at home and risk his life once more to arrive here by small boat

Pakistani officials say militants targeted police in two attacks in the country's volatile northwest, killing four officers and wounding six

Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. 

Dramatic intervention by Labour leader attacking ‘shameful level of incompetence’ over hero’s asylum claim

Taliban militants killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan early Thursday, police and the insurgents said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to…

Despite MoD assurances, applicant and former British Council worker still being asked for Taliban-stamped papers

Kabul (AFP) - Abused for years by her ex-husband who broke all of her teeth, Marwa has retreated into hiding with her eight children after being told her divorce had been revoked.