All news on the topic: Operation Enduring Freedom

Ben McBean, who lost an arm and a leg to a landmine blast in Helmand Province in 2008, was furious to receive the blue badge refusal for not "officially meet[ing] the criteria"

Harrison Hull fought in the US Army Air Force throughout the second world war as a young man. 79 years after the war ended, Hull is still alive - and receiving hundreds of birthday cards

Former Marine Jon White is refusing to let his experience in Afghanistan where a Taliban bomb made him a triple-amputee get in the way of becoming an Olympic champion

In a three-part Channel 4 series titled Evacuation, British military personnel open up about their experience of assisting thousands of British passport holders, embassy staff and vulnerable Afghans during Operation Pitting