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The Taliban is allowing Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network al-Qaeda to gain a foothold in Afghanistan and opposition leader Khalid Noor of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Council warns it could see another 9/11-style attack plotted

Sayeed, who worked for the British Council, was able to escape across the border to Pakistan with his wife and son in the wake of the Western pullout from Afghanistan - but has been in limbo ever since

Afghan women who fled the Taliban before being brought to the UK tell of being separated from their families two years on with refugees given no answers over whether they can see their parents or children again

On the second anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy writes for the Mirror about the plight of women and girls in the war-torn country

The UK diplomat who was Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan when the Taliban surged back to power has spoken out on the second anniversary of Western troops' withdrawal

Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey has hit out at ministers over the treatment of heroes who helped UK forces during more than a decade of combat operations in the war-torn country

The former Prime Minister wants the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the matter as the two-year anniversary approaches of the fall of Kabul

Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock warned that thousands of Afghans face being booted out of their "temporary" accommodation two years after fleeing the Taliban

An Afghan translator who put himself and his family in danger for the UK is still in limbo two years after the Taliban takeover despite being entitled to asylum in the UK

The warning comes from the Local Government Association as it prepares for its annual conference in Bournemouth, and as the UK is gripped by an 'acute' housing shortage

Jamal Barack was 18 when he was shot in the arm and chest during an ambush on the Army’s Scots Guards in Helmand Province. He has been waiting for compensation for 13 years

Hibatullah Akhundzada hardly ever appears in public and surrounds himself with other religious scholars in Afghanistan who are opposed to education and work for women

Controversial 'danger tourist Miles Routledge is among three Brits currently held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Mr Routledge is being held along with charity medic Kevin Cornwell and another unnamed man

Controversial 'danger tourist Miles Routledge is among three Brits currently held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Mr Routledge is being held along with charity medic Kevin Cornwell and another unnamed man

An Afghan pilot who flew 30 combat missions fighting against the Taliban with British forces had no option but to travel to the UK via small boat and now faces deportation

ISIS-K, the Islamic State - Khorasan Province has developed capabilities in Afghanistan that enable it to attack West interests in Eurasia, said US Army General Michael Kurilla

Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, who was killed in his office by a bomb, is one of the highest-ranking figures to be killed since the Taliban swept back to power in 2021

Mortaza Behboudi has been held in Afghanistan since January 7, two days after he arrived in his native Afghanistan on a reporting trip and his wife shares to The Mirror concerns on his welfare

Birth control such as the Pill and contraceptive devices have reportedly been banned in two of Afghanistan's major cities, with Taliban officials ordering pharmacies to remove them

Afghanistan is facing its coldest winter in 15 years, with temperatures dropping as low as -34 degrees Celsius, as the death doubles in less than a week

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was found guilty of stabbing 21-year-old Thomas Roberts to death in a row over an e-scooter in Bournemouth, last year, but it emerged the refugee had a string of convictions following him across Serbia and Italy

Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local people, but the reason for their beating is still unknown

More than 36 died when the suicide vehicle-born improvised explosive device (SVBIED) exploded outside Kabul's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was hosting the Chinese ambassador and delegation