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The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

What is the Afghan data breach? Everything to know

The details to a secret Afghan relocation scheme has been revealed

Evening Standard

Terror to tourism? Hostage-style video invites visitors to Taliban's Afghanistan

Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to travel to Afghanistan.

Euronews

Keir Starmer says Tory ministers have 'questions' to answer on data leak and secret route to UK for Afghans

At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction

Evening Standard

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OPINION - Afghan data breach is a shameful blight on our country - and a symptom of broader systemic failures

The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at…

Evening Standard

‘The worst day of all time’: Afghans speak of safety fears after UK data leak

Law firm representing thousands says some already killed and others in hiding as a result of government ‘blunder’

The Guardian - UK

UK’s cavalier attitude leaves Afghans facing yet more fear and uncertainty

Leaked details are just another example of how the UK let down Afghans who believed in what Britain promised their country

The Guardian - UK

What we know about the secret Afghan relocation scheme

Accidental data breach that put Afghans at risk and led to covert resettlement scheme was subject to superinjuction

The Guardian - UK

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Afghans have been betrayed yet again by this shocking UK data leak – and many don’t even know if they’re affected

This isn’t the first time Afghans brave enough to work against the Taliban have been let down by Britain, but it might be the most shameful, says writer Diane Taylor

The Guardian - UK

Not our finest hour: When Britain’s allies put their lives on the line, we abandoned them – and covered it up

COMMENT: The British believe their word is their bond – but no one who’s dealt with us agrees, least of all in Afghanistan, world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

The Independent UK

UK secretly resettled thousands of Afghans after major data leak raised safety fears

The details of nearly 19,000 Afghans who had applied to move to the UK after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan were released in error in 2022.

Euronews

The UK says thousands of Afghans have been brought to Britain under a secret resettlement program

Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them

The Independent UK

Inside the £7bn secret scramble to save lives after MoD data breach

After a leak at the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – with two years of court fights and rescue plans projected to cost billions, all hidden from MPs and the public. Now, after the lifting of an unprecedented…

The Independent UK

US court briefly pauses Trump’s move to end protective status for Afghans

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from removing temporary protective status of nearly 12,000 Afghans.

Al Jazeera

Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S.

The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.

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The Independent UK

‘Message to America’: US tourists invited to explore Afghanistan in surreal video featuring a ‘comedy’ hostage scene

The dark production, which is reminiscent of Taliban hostage beheading videos, has emerged on its social media accounts, but it’s not clear if the group made it

The Conversation

From Kabul to the catwalk – the surprising global history behind fashion’s fur revival

The winter season of 2024-25 marked a resurgence of fur clothing – both faux and real – in fashion across Europe and North America. Shearling jackets and embroidered “Penny Lane coats” featured widely in reports on the latest fashion trends. Vintage fur coats are also back in vogue.

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While Traveling In Afghanistan, I Saw This Country In A Different Light; Here Are 27 Photographs I Took

Here are the most beautiful images I captured in Afghanistan.

The Guardian - UK

ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women

Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanity

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Euronews

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women's rights violations

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, who have limited girls' education and banned women's voices from being heard in public.

The Independent UK

UN adopts resolution on Afghanistan's Taliban rule over US objections

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations

The Guardian - UK

‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline

Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbid them to work or travel without a male guardian

Al Jazeera

Iran tells millions of Afghans to leave or face arrest on day of deadline

Move follows war with Israel, but humanitarian groups warn mass deportations may further destabilise Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Sandy Gall: Journalist who took on war zones around the world

As well as being one of the faces of ITV’s ‘News at Ten’, the foreign correspondent forged a career covering the world’s most dangerous places

Al Jazeera

‘End is near’: Will Kabul become first big city without water by 2030?

The city of six million people could soon run out water, amid climate change, sanctions and governance failures.

International Business Times

Afghans Both Hopeful, Disappointed After Russia's Taliban Recognition

Russia's decision to formally recognise the Taliban government has been seen as an opening for a stronger economy by some Afghans, while others were sceptical that it would improve their lot.

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