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Afghanistan

September 2026

  • People walk along a path between tents, rubble and destroyed buildings

    UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians

  • Afghanistan’s Fariba Hashimi celebrates with her medal alongside her sister Yuldoz Hashimi and teammate Zahra Rezayee

    Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver

  • Patients in Sierra Leone at a pharmacy window

    Poorest countries hit hardest by UK aid cuts under Keir Starmer government, new figures reveal

  • soldiers salute next to a flag draped coffin in a hearse

    IS member sentenced to 20 years in prison for role in 2021 Kabul airport bombing

  • CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11

  • double quotation markAfter 9/11, I lived through Australia’s long war in Afghanistan. There are lessons the world must learn

    Shadi Khan Saif

  • double quotation markOsama bin Laden shook the world on 9/11. Today it is clear how his wider plans failed

    Jason Burke

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan

August 2026

  • People gather on the steps of the courthouse holding up banners that say: 'Justice for Jasmeet Wadhwa'

    British family pleads with French authorities to release body of relative who died in Channel

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    double quotation markHow young women can learn to better wield economic power

    Heather Stewart
  • A billboard features the president and first lady in Sierra Leone, which raised the minimum marriage age to 18 in 2024.

    The Guardian view on child marriage: girls should not be wives

  • A black and white portrait of Luke Harding behind a swirling orange graphic

    Conversations
    ‘The Trump-Putin relationship is the biggest mystery in international politics’: foreign correspondent Luke Harding answered your questions

  • Rights and freedom
    double quotation markThe Taliban have built a system for enslaving women in Afghanistan

    Amanda Abou Abdallah

  • Brief letters
    The decent way for countries to engage with the Taliban

  • TV review
    25 Years in Afghanistan review – the extraordinary life of an optimist

  • Taliban threaten former Afghan police worker after MoD leak reveals identity

  • The promises the Taliban made to women, then broke – video explainer

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  • Rights and freedom
    Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan plunges into a state of collapse – visualised

  • double quotation markI feel guilt talking to those left behind in Afghanistan. While I enjoy freedom, they are prisoners

    Nelufar Hedayat

  • Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan

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