Bomb kills at least 30 as it explodes outside Kabul girls’ school with pupils aged between 11 and 15 among dead as final US and UK troops leave Afghanistan The Taliban condemned the attack, denied responsibility and claimed ‘only Islamic state could be responsible’ Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the death toll is expected … Read more
Meghan Markle is using her new children’s book to show ‘how much the army meant to Harry and how upset he is to lose his military titles,’ a royal author has claimed – as price is slashed by £3 a month before release. In one illustration in The Bench, a red-headed soldier wearing an American-style … Read more
Meghan Markle is using her new children’s book to show ‘how much the army meant to Harry and how upset he is to lose his military titles,’ a royal author has claimed – as price is slashed by £3 a month before release. In one illustration in The Bench, a red-headed soldier wearing an American-style … Read more
At least 30 killed and 60 injured as car bomb explodes ‘outside hospital’ in Afghanistan At least 30 people killed by car bomb in eastern Afghanistan province of Logar Blast detonated near a hospital and the home of former provincial council head Ministry of health spokesperson said that 40 people have been taken to hospital It … Read more
Al Qaeda has vowed to ‘wage war on all fronts’ against the US unless they retreat from the entire Islamic world. Speaking ahead of the tenth anniversary since Osama Bin Laden’s death, two operatives said the terrorist network is planning a comeback as President Joe Biden prepares to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by September 11. … Read more
Hero paratrooper Ben Parkinson who’s the most severely injured soldier to survive Afghanistan tells GMB he has ‘no reason to be upset’ because it would be a ‘betrayal of the men who saved him’ Ben Parkinson is the most seriously injured British soldier from the Afghan war He defied medics expectations to go skydiving and … Read more
The State Department is ordering home most remaining staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul due to security concerns after President Joe Biden announced earlier this month a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. All personnel have been instructed, according to a Tuesday report, to depart Afghanistan unless their jobs require them … Read more
Footage of an Afghan woman being lashed 40 times by the Taliban has emerged in a stark reminder of the state of the country as the US withdraws its troops. The Islamists, emboldened by Joe Biden’s decision to pull troops out of the country, have warned the US and its Nato allies there will be … Read more
An Afghan woman has been lashed 40 times by the Taliban for reportedly speaking to a man on the phone. Footage shared online shows the accused being led into a circle formed by dozens of male spectators to receive the punishment handed down by three tribal elders. One man first takes up the whipping before … Read more
Reading Ben Parkinson’s extraordinary story, the first part of which is serialised in today’s Mail, stirred up some powerful memories. Ten years ago I spent time in Afghanistan making a documentary about medicine on the frontline, about the courage of soldiers such as Ben as well as new developments in trauma medicine. The survival rate … Read more