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Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. 

Dramatic intervention by Labour leader attacking ‘shameful level of incompetence’ over hero’s asylum claim

Taliban militants killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan early Thursday, police and the insurgents said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to…

Despite MoD assurances, applicant and former British Council worker still being asked for Taliban-stamped papers

Kabul (AFP) - Abused for years by her ex-husband who broke all of her teeth, Marwa has retreated into hiding with her eight children after being told her divorce had been revoked.

Afghans now account for the largest number of small boat migrants, with more than 9,000 having made the Channel crossing in 2022

Former minister Rory Stewart called the case ‘shameful’ while General Sir Richard Barrons said the evacuation from Afghanistan had been a ‘mess’

Calls mounted Wednesday for the Taliban to free a girls' education activist arrested earlier this week in Kabul, as a government minister defended the detention. Matiullah Wesa, founder and president of Pen Path — a local nongovernmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library — was…

A top US diplomat says the Taliban must free detained Afghanistan activists, following the arrest of a girls’ education advocate

A prominent education activist is arrested in Afghanistan by the Taliban amid calls to allow teenage girls and women back into classrooms.

As a historic war crimes case gets underway, the family of an Afghan villager who was killed by an Australian soldier calls for more ADF personnel to be brought to trial.