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Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to travel to Afghanistan. View on euronews
An Afghan man has said he has "no words to express how thankful" he is after being reunited with his wife and children after nearly four years apart. Muhammad Khan has been living in the south of England since 2021 after being resettled in the UK following his help to British troops in his home country.
ITV News has spoken to Afghans who worked for the UK in Afghanistan and could be under threat from the Taliban following a data breach.
DEFENCE chiefs are braced for a £1billion compensation bill over a data breach which revealed Afghans who supported UK forces. Around 100,000 were put at risk of Taliban death squads when
Operation Rubific eventually saw 24,000 Afghans relocated to the UK, at a cost of billions of pounds to the taxpayer, in the "biggest covert evacuation operation in peacetime", said The Spectator.
The government could face a legal bill topping £1 billion in compensation to victims of the Afghan data breach scandal. Thousands of people’s lives were put at risk of Taliban reprisals when their names were accidentally leaked in 2022.
We were lucky to escape Afghanistan alive - nine months later, we’re still waiting to be brought to safety’ - Exclusive: Rayan and his family has spent so long waiting to be brought to the UK that his
The Defence Secretary has apologised for the leak and said he was "confident" there was a reduced risk of future data breaches.
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Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.
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.
An Afghan interpreter who worked with the British military has told Sky News he feels betrayed by the British government after a massive data breach saw his personal details revealed.
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Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows.