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Afghans’ national suicide note
Out of time and soon out of office, the Afghan president-outgoing, Hamid Karzai, has just done exactly what Afghans and foreigners alike, never expected.
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After 12 years of British involvement in Afghanistan, David Cameron announces he is preparing to pull troops out of the country next year, despite fears of an insurgency.
Out of time and soon out of office, the Afghan president-outgoing, Hamid Karzai, has just done exactly what Afghans and foreigners alike, never expected.
Word has arrived of a major development in the case of Sahar Gul, the 15-year-old girl rescued from terrible abuse by her in-laws and featured in a recent Unreported World documentary.
The mere thought of my little girl getting hurt makes me wince. So listening to a young Kabul woman in Kabul describe how her father stabbed her 16 times because she refused to marry the man he’d chosen is an unsettling experience
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, is released from prison in Pakistan as a part of a deal aimed at securing peace in the region.
The US says it will keep 19 embassies in north Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to a possible militant threat against western targets in the region.
With Iran’s new president set to be inaugurated on Sunday, how will he tackle a list of woes including ever-present sanctions and fears over its nuclear aspirations?
At least nine civilians, including children, are killed in a suicide attack near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, security officials say.
At least 15 people, including three children, are killed in a bomb attack on a security convoy as it passed through a market area in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Ten UK-captured detainees are transferred to Afghan custody after up to 14 months at Camp Bastion, with more to follow in the coming days, after a High Court ruling.
Alex Thomson outlines the three strands of the Taliban and asks who have we really been fighting and who are we going to talk to?
How the Taliban’s flag has turned ‘peace talks in Doha’ from diplomatic triumph to an egg-on-your-face moment for Barack Obama.
Gulnaz prompted an international outcry in 2010 when she found herself jailed for adultery after being raped. But in the three years since then, her life has taken an even more shocking turn.
Tuesday’s attack on the US airbase Bagram, which killed four American troops, conforms to what Taliban spokesmen said would happen, announcing their ‘spring offensive’ back in April.
Three people are killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack in Kabul as Afghan forces take the lead for the country’s security from Nato forces.