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Deadly attack on Pakistan outpost puts Afghanistan ceasefire at risk

Taliban ([TTP](/news/2025/10/12/afghanistan-pakistan-border-clashes-what-we-know-so-far)) claiming responsibility. An armed group rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into

Afghanistan says Pakistani strikes kill seven and wound 85 in first attack since peace talks

Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP. The group is separate from, but allied

Shabana Mahmood refuses to rule out sending back failed Afghan asylum seekers

Taliban-controlled country. The home secretary said she is “monitoring very closely” talks between Kabul

Two migrants jailed under new small boats law

Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan 10 years ago, after they refused to poison soldiers who visited

Afghan veteran hospitalised after station assault

Taliban siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in 2018 and attack on a maternity ward in Kabul

‘Predators’: Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as human rights decline

Taliban was responsible for further gender-based discrimination in 2025, the report noted, citing measures

Afghanistan women can return to competition

Taliban's return to power in 2021 triggered restrictions on women's rights, including a ban on women

More than 200,000 migrants have crossed Channel in small boats since 2018

Taliban](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58223231) in Afghanistan. In 2022 the largest group of migrants using this

The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them

Taliban in the 1990s in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At nearly 4,000 fighters in Syria

Harry and Meghan to produce Afghan war film for Netflix

Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, from waves of attacks in 2006. It is a highly

Afghanistan women's refugee team to tour England

Taliban returned to power and effectively outlawed female participation in sport in the country. An Afghanistan

‘Grotesque’: parties criticise Reform UK plan to set up migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas

Taliban to take them back, and rip up the UK’s postwar human rights commitments

Pakistan opens up road trade routes into Iran amid Hormuz blockade

Taliban, the de facto rulers in Kabul, have no reset switch,” Iftikhar Firdous, cofounder of The Khorasan

Wednesday briefing: Where Starmer stands after another precarious day in Parliament

Taliban](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/28/afghanistan-womens-football-team-fifa-recognition), which banned the team. ## In depth: ‘Labour MPs can’t decide

Dirk Kempthorne, former Idaho governor and U.S. Interior secretary, dies at 74

Taliban following the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal. Kemthorne and others worked frantically for months

Dirk Kempthorne, former Idaho governor and U.S. Interior secretary, dies at 74

Taliban following the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal. Kempthorne and others worked frantically for months

Pakistan and China reach ‘new broad consensus’ on boosting ties

Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, and East Turkestan Islamic Movement, also known as the Turkistan

Alex Younger, former head of MI6, dies aged 62

Taliban in 2001 and subsequently led MI6’s counter-terrorism work in the three years

Greece reopens Syrian and Afghan asylum cases, hoping for returns

Taliban’s sweeping victory in August 2021. But neither Syria nor Afghanistan is necessarily safe

Sanctions fears as Krygyzstan shutters companies suspected of aiding Russia

Taliban in Afghanistan,” Mikhail Krishtal, associate professor at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad