Afghanistan
What a big scandal says about small Britain
The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour
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Afghan data leak: one part of a great betrayal
The Afghans who served with western forces have been let down by ignorant politicians with no idea who the Taliban truly are
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Tim Hetherington, the photographer who pulled at the threads of war
A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them
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Is the Taliban getting hooked on fentanyl?
The militant fighters running Afghanistan have shut down the heroin trade – but what happens to drugs in Europe as a result could be a disaster
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The art the Taliban couldn’t stop
Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison
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Those betrayed by the UK
Scores of Afghans who helped the British in Kabul had to flee to Iran when the Taliban took power. But now Iran is sending them back, to almost certain death
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The Taliban called me a high value target and threatened to have me killed… just for writing the truth
A year on from the fall of Afghanistan, one journalist’s terrifying return...
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I’m a woman living in Kabul. Here’s how my life has changed after a year of Taliban rule
I was planning to take a degree in law and work as a lawyer or a judge. Now my dreams and goals are lost
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Our forever war on terror
Al-Qaida’s leader is dead but terrorism is very much alive.. and the next wave of it to strike Britain may come from the extreme right
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Theatre Review: Kabul Goes Pop is admirably furious
Waleed Akhtar has produced an elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan
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Could Monica Harding defeat Dominic Raab?
Raab has not received a single donation since last summer, even from his old pal Dmitry Leus. So, if Harding ran again, there is little doubt she win the former foreign secretary's seat
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Britain faces ‘Schindler’s List’ moment over Afghanistan, says Helena Kennedy
The UK encouraged Afghan women to take up top judicial roles. Now they need, and deserve, our help, argues Baroness Kennedy.
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Mandrake: Is the government set to return Afghans?
TIM WALKER on the suggestion the government's contradictions over Afghan refugees.
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The killing field of Kabul that became a place of optimism
The Afghan capital’s main stadium was used by the Taliban for public executions – and it may be again. But for PAT McFADDEN the venue was once a place of optimism
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How will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
As the world waits to see the extent to which the Taliban’s victory will see the return of its brutal interpretation of Islamic law, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL reports on different approaches used in other Muslim countries
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Tom Tugendhat: “The price of inaction can be more than action”
The Conservative MP and former soldier, whose moving speech on the tragedy in Afghanistan brought applause from the Commons, writes for The New European, and warns of an impending human calamity .. and China's role in a new global attitude to intervention.
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Not leadership, but a moral vacuum: Britain’s disgrace in Afghanistan
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the shameful moral vacuum that is the British government of today
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Hopes and fears for Britain and Afghanistan
Afghanistan treasures its relationship with Britain, says its ambassador to the UK, said Tayeb Jawad. Here he outlines his hopes that relationship will not be harmed by Brexit. Afghan ambassador When Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, woke to the news that the country had voted for Brexit, he knew that his […]