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Australia's failure to compensate victims more than a decade after Australian soldiers allegedly killed Afghan civilians, has been criticised by UN experts.

Hundreds of servicemen and women are ready in the UK to be deployed to the region at short notice as fears for an all-out war grow

Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi fled Kabul after the city once again fell to the Taliban in 2021. Three years later, the sister cyclists are riding alongside one another in the 2024 Paris Olympics women’s road race on Sunday, proudly bearing the black, red and green Afghan tricolour torn down by…

From American Samoa’s Filomenaleonisa Iakopo to Kimia Yousofi of Afghanistan, the roads to the 100m are diverse

Kimia Yousofi, part of the six-person Afghan team competing in Paris, had a message for the Taliban after her 100m heat

The Oscar-winning documentary-maker was instrumental in the historic US-Russian prisoner swap, but she says, the one person missing from the deal was her friend Alexei Navalny. She talks about her last conversation with him, her new film about the Taliban and her next project in Ukraine

‘Afghans did right by us, and we will do right by them’, immigration minister says

The Taliban disavows Afghan diplomatic missions, imposes restrictions on documents, and faces challenges in gaining international recognition due to their ...

In a career spanning more than four decades, it was at The Independent that Kim would define his legacy as one of Britain’s best on-the-ground correspondents, writes international editor Chris Stevenson