Tag: Taliban
about 1 year ago
dailymail.co.uk

Tobias Ellwood 'QUITS as Defence Committee chair' after revolt by MPs who branded him a 'f***ing...

An insider told MailOnline Tobias Ellwood is stepping down after failing to convince colleagues that he should keep t...

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about 1 year ago
dailymail.co.uk

Tobias Ellwood faces vote to oust him as Defence Committee chair within days after MPs branded hi...

Tobias Ellwood is expected to make his case to colleagues for keeping the prestigious role at a meeting this afternoon.

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about 1 year ago
nypost.com

Marines were ordered to pick up human feces before they were allowed to leave Kabul: 'Degrading a...

This humiliation is recounted for the first time in a new book, “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the Am...

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about 1 year ago
nypost.com

Gold Star families force Biden to face his failure in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal: 'Disgra...

The families of 13 American service members killed during Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan two years a...

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about 1 year ago
dailymail.co.uk

Commons Defence Committee tables unprecedented no-confidence motion in 'f***ing idiot' chair Tobi...

Tobias Ellwood has deleted the video praising the 'vastly improved' security situation in Afghanistan and urging the ...

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Tory MP Tobias Ellwood apologises for praising Afghanistan under Taliban rule

The chair of Parliament's Defence Select Committee said he 'made a mistake' and has since pulled down the clip, after...

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about 1 year ago
dailymail.co.uk

Furious MPs condemn Tory Defence Committee chief over 'bizarre propaganda video' saying Taliban h...

Colleagues laid into Tobias Ellwood for posting a 'wish you were here' clip talking about his recent visit to the war...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Miles Routledge: who is ‘danger tourist’, why is he held by the Taliban - what happened in Afghan...

The 23-year-old faced backlash when he travelled to Afghanistan in 2021 after googling the ‘10 most dangerous countri...

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over 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

Harry slammed by defence chief for 'boasting' over his Taliban kill-count comments

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has criticised Prince Harry for "boasting" about his kill count in Afghanistan in his m...

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almost 2 years ago
telegraph.co.uk

Prince Harry reveals that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan

In his memoir, Spare, the Duke of Sussex says that in combat he did not think of the 25 as ‘people’ but as ‘chess pie...

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Dominic Raab's row with staff caused 'blockage' during Afghanistan evacuation

The Deputy Prime Minister’s relationship with officials, whom he viewed as “time-wasters”, had a negative impact the ...

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almost 2 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Terrifying moment Taliban whips female students who protest their right to study

The group of female students chanted 'education is our right' as they asked to enter the university, but video showed...

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about 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

The terrorist group al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11 attacks explained

Has al-Qaeda collapsed in Afghanistan after its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul? Here is everything you ...

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about 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

BBC documentary Afghanistan: Getting out charts the US withdrawal from the country

Key players in the war in Afghanistan and the troop withdrawals of 2021 give unique insight into the events that led ...

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about 2 years ago
manchesterworld.uk

Fly With Me: where to see hundreds of kites take to skies over Manchester at weekend

The organisers particularly want to highlight the plight of women and girls who are still in Afghanistan and urge the...

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about 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

More than 1,000 refugees have moved to Hampshire in the past 12 months

MORE than 1,000 refugees have been rehoused in Hampshire in the past 12 months.

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about 2 years ago
thestar.com

Canada said her case was urgent. Four months later, this Afghan women’s activist waits with no visa

Farzana Adell Ghadiya’s file has been marked “urgent” by immigration officials since April, but she’s stuck in a thir...

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about 2 years ago
birminghamworld.uk

A Bull-illiant Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony! Photos and revu

Now the world knows how great Birmingham really is - see our review from inside Alexander Stadium and photo gallery here

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over 2 years ago
yorkshirepost.co.uk

Almost 300 Afghan refugees still in Yorkshire hotels nearly a year after airlift as minister admi...

The minister responsible for resettling refugees fleeing terror and war has admitted he is disappointed by the number...

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over 2 years ago
thestar.com

‘I just froze. It broke my heart,’ says Afghan émigré Roya Shams of Taliban’s decision to cancel ...

Taliban rulers have decided against reopening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on their promise to th...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Brit soldier in Ukraine complains as Russian shelling interrupts his cup of tea

Shane Matthew, 34, who travelled to Ukraine to fight Putin's forces, told how Russian shelling disrupted his cup of t...

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over 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

LGBT Afghan stabbed by Taliban says attackers vowed: 'It is our time to finish people like you'

Sara was left with 18 wounds after the attack in Kabul - now a new organisation, Roshaniya, is seeking to evacuate LG...

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over 2 years ago
thestar.com

This 21-year-old Afghan skier fled the Taliban and fears for her life. Canada has turned her away

‘With the Taliban around, she would be dead,’ says a Canadian businessman trying to support Nazima Khairzad, now stas...

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over 2 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Afghanistan: Taliban elite educate their daughters abroad

Senior officials are sending their children to overseas state schools and universities, including in Qatar, southwest...

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over 2 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

MOD is still evacuating 250 people a WEEK out of Afghanistan to the UK

James Heappey told LBC the UK had managed to bring 'about 2,800' people out of Afghanistan since the end of Operation...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Moment mannequin is beheaded in Afghan store on Taliban orders

A video shared on Twitter on Monday shows an unidentified man using a hack saw to remove the head of a mannequin as s...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Ex armed forces boss admits no 'true understanding' of Afghan politics

General Carter said he was taken aback by the chaotic scenes as the country fell to the Taliban and the scramble to f...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Facebook failed to crack down on extremist content, report reveals

Extremists have turned to Facebook as a weapon 'to promote their hate-filled agenda and rally supporters' on hundreds...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Senior Tories urge Peloton-riding civil servants to get back office

Junior mandarin Raphael Marshall said soldiers had to be drafted in for desk work in the Foreign Office when colleagu...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Foreign Office whistleblowers' full evidence on Afghanistan evacuation

Across 39 devastating pages of evidence, junior diplomat Raphael Marshall today laid bare the extraordinary shambles ...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Raab bats away fury over Afghan shambles after whistleblower account

Dominic Raab batted away fresh anger over the shambles after a junior civil servant claimed that at times he was the ...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Afghan refugee who fled Kabul gave birth in London hotel room

Melanie Clark, an RAF veteran who works as a nurse, delivered the baby of an Afghan refugee when she arrived at a Lon...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Tom Tugendhat slams National Security Adviser over Afghanistan crisis

Tom Tugendhat today slammed senior civil servants and ministers for going on holiday during the Afghanistan crisis as...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Britain's envoy to Afghanistan 'repeatedly warned' on Taliban threat

Diplomatic cables show that, despite claims the dramatic collapse was a surprise, Sir Laurie Bristow had been flaggin...

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almost 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘My wife can’t even go out to get food’: Afghan refugees here appeal to Ottawa to expedite reunif...

Hundreds of Afghan women and children have been waiting to join their husbands and fathers in Canada long before Otta...

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about 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Afghanistan's central bank was drained before Taliban took over

Afghanistan's severe cash shortage began before the Taliban took control of Kabul, according to a confidential, two-p...

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about 3 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Taliban 'threatens to punish barbers who trim beards' amid fears of return to rule

The instructions are another sign the Islamist group will adopt fearsome measures similar to their previous rule from...

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about 3 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Taliban hang bodies of 'kidnappers' in public as grim warning to other criminals

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: The men were strung up from cranes in Herat, Afghanistan, on Saturday, after being caught a...

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about 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Customer launches vile racist tirade at petrol station worker

A 34-year-old man was arrested and released under investigation after police received reports of racial abuse at Texa...

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