Inside Afghanistan’s ‘appalling’ refugee camps
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
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Pakistan’s leading state prosecutor investigating cases including the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead in Islamabad.
It is a war that should be winding down, instead today’s incident takes the British death toll ever closer to 450. What does this mean for withdrawal?
Twelve people – including three British soldiers – are killed in the first IED-related incident of 2013, as the Ministry of Defence warns that the situation is still “risky and dangerous”.
The former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is taken into police custody in Islamabad after fleeing a court which had ordered his detention.
Former president Pervez Musharraf flees a court in Pakistan after it ordered his arrest for detaining senior judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.
Terrorists reportedly used pressure cookers packed with metal and ball bearings to kill three people at the Boston Marathon, according to a source briefed on the attack.
A Nato air strike kills at least ten children in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, with a further six women believed to have been injured, according to local politicians.
Militants are suspected of shooting dead a female teacher and beating up her 15-year-old son in Pakistan. The attack is condemned by former prime minister Gordon Brown.
Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf returns home on Sunday after nearly four years of self-imposed exile despite facing death threats from the Taliban.
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
Money from the UK’s official aid budget could be used to fund military operations to stabilise war-torn states says David Cameron. And aid agencies agree – up to a point.
Ten years after millions protested against the Iraq war, author Ian McEwan tells Channel 4 News the marchers were vindicated and beating al-Qaeda is no longer the “struggle of our time”.
Speaking publicly for the first time since she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says she has set up a fund to help all children get an education.
Malala Yousafzai says she believes so strongly in education that she would be willing to “sacrifice herself once again” if it meant every child could be educated, writes Fatima Manji.
At least 35 people are dead after militants attack an isolated army checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive northwest.