Kabul, Afghanistan’s Capital, Could Run Out of Water by 2030
The six million people living in the Afghan capital could be out of water by 2030. The government is scrambling for solutions, but financial reserves are as dry as Kabul’s water basins.
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Razia Jan, 81, Who Built an Enduring Girls’ School in Afghanistan, Dies
Before 9/11, she ran a dry cleaning business in Massachusetts; in the aftermath, she returned home after decades away to educate young girls.
Pakistan Shuts Ghulam Khan Crossing With Afghanistan, Sparking Trade Concerns
Pakistan has implemented a decisive closure of the Ghulam Khan border crossing with Afghanistan’s Khost province, enforcing new, stricter requirements for valid visas and passports. This policy shift, initiated on Friday, August 1, 2025, immediately halted the informal practice that previously allowed select individuals—such as medical patients—to cross using tokens rather than full travel
Four Years On: An Appraisal of the Taliban’s Return
The international community should expect to see Taliban rule as a fixture in Afghanistan’s near term future.
Elderly British couple face dying in Afghanistan detention, UN experts warn
Human rights officials demand Peter and Barbie Reynolds be moved to hospital and out of ‘degrading’ jail conditionsUN human rights experts have warned that an elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan may die in “degrading conditions” as they dema…
Children of elderly UK couple jailed by Taliban call for release before they ‘die in custody’
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge The children of an elderly couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged the group to release the pair before they “die in custody”.They s…
Grant Shapps defends use of superinjunction to suppress Afghan data leak
Shapps, defence secretary when the superinjunction was imposed, said its use was ‘entirely justified’ to save livesAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the ARR?The former defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended the use of an unprecede…
Why thousands of Afghans were secretly relocated to the UK – podcast
Dan Sabbagh on the data leak that may have cost hundreds of millions of pounds – and put Afghan lives at riskThis week an email was sent to people in Afghanistan. It told the recipients, who had all worked for British forces in Afghanistan, that some o…
Spies and SAS personnel among 100-plus Britons included in Afghan data leak
Sources say leak included details of Britons who endorsed Afghan applications to be brought to UK after Taliban takeoverDetails of members of the SAS are among more than 100 Britons named in the database of 18,700 Afghans, the accidental leak of which …
Merz says he ‘deplores deeply’ UK’s decision to leave EU after signing UK-Germany treaty – as it happened
UK PM and German chancellor answered media questions after signing first treaty between two countries since second world warWhile Rushanara Ali is answering the urgent question in the Commons, Keir Starmer is speaking at the event where he is announcin…