Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid• The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrongGordon Brown has written to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, c…
Briton missing in Afghanistan after reports of Taliban arrest
Grant Bailey was working as security consultant in Kabul where he liaised with US state departmentA British man is missing in Afghanistan after a report he has been detained by the Taliban. Grant Bailey was arrested in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where …
Hundreds queue for passports in bid to leave Afghanistan
Crowds brave sub-zero temperatues after Taliban announces it will resume issuing travel documentsHundreds of people have braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan’s capital to queue outside the passport office, a day after the Taliban government anno…
Pakistani Taliban declare end to month-long ceasefire with government
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan accuse state of breaching terms including a prisoner release agreementTaliban militants in Pakistan have declared an end to a month-long ceasefire arranged with the aid of the Afghan Taliban, accusing the government of breach…
National Geographic green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ evacuated to Italy
Sharbat Gula left Afghanistan after Taliban takeover that followed US departure from countryNational Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the west’s evacuation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of the…
Women’s rights activist shot dead in northern Afghanistan
Frozan Safi, 29, is believed to be the first women’s rights defender to be killed since Taliban return to powerA 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first…
‘We planted a seed’: the Afghan artists who painted for freedom
The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul’s political murals – and those who created them have fled into exileNegina Azimi felt shock and fear like never before when she heard that Taliban fighters had entered Kabul on 15 August. As an outspoken female artist…
US to give humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Taliban say
US says it discussed aid in talks in Doha but Taliban say deal agreed that stops short of formal recognition of new rulersThe United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, b…
Crypto remittances are a lifeline for the world’s most vulnerable
Crypto has already revolutionized remittances in unstable, conflict-ridden places. Afghanistan presents a textbook use case for cryptocurrencies in failed states.
US to hold talks with Taliban over easing evacuations
Focus of talks in Qatar will be allowing foreigners and at-risk Afghans to leave Afghanistan, says US officialUS officials will meet senior Taliban figures this weekend for talks aimed at easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and at-risk Afghans fr…