Laws intended to tackle child abuse are resulting in young men in consensual relationships being imprisoned. Activists argue a more nuanced approach is neededMani*, 21, began dating Noor*, 17, two years ago. They couldn’t see each other during the Covi…
Afghanistan: G7 leaders to seek unity on Taliban as deadline for evacuation looms
Group of world leaders expected to discuss fraught evacuation deadline, sanctions and human rightsAfghanistan – latest updatesG7 leaders will be under pressure to present a united front at an emergency summit on Afghanistan on Tuesday despite public di…
In Pakistan we cultivated the Taliban, then turned on them. Now we can only hope they forgive us | Mohammed Hanif
Many of us are gloating at the US retreat, but there is dread in our hearts. We can’t forget how the Taliban brought their fight to our mosques and schoolsNot too long ago, Pakistan and Afghanistan were called Af-Pak: two countries joined at the hip, d…
Afghan guard killed in Kabul airport gun battle
One dead in firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guardsA firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guards at Kabul airport has left one Afghan guard dead and three wounded, underscoring the fragile secur…
Turkey reinforces Iran border to block Afghan refugees
By the end of the year, authorities plan to add another 64km to a border wall intended to stop refugees arriving on their way to westAfghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high w…
Why the west will learn no lessons from the fall of Kabul | Nesrine Malik
From Sudan to Iraq to Afghanistan, self-righteous US and UK policies have more to do with power than peopleIn August 1998, two weeks after a little-known terror outfit called al-Qaida announced itself to the world with bomb attacks on the American emba…
Johnson to urge Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport after 31 August
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will personally lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders summit, No 10 said on Sunday night, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end o…
‘We lost everything’: Afghan wheelchair basketball team captain speaks out
Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.“There w…
It is our moral duty to take in more Afghan refugees | Letters
Readers despair at the Tory government’s treatment of the people who risked their lives to work for it in AfghanistanYou have to admire the genius of the UK’s refugee policy: first, no one who gets here unofficially can be considered for asylum and the…
Afghans face economic ruin as prices rise and cash runs low
Experts warn of hyperinflation and growing poverty, with money transfers from abroad suspended Afghanistan is facing a potentially catastrophic perfect storm of bank closures and shortages of hard currency on top of the suspension of money transfers by…