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These Afghans won the visa lottery in 2019 — now they’re stuck in Kabul

Trump’s ban on the visa lottery was ruled to be illegal, but the government says it can’t help hundreds of Afghans who won it for at least another year.

US President Joe Biden. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden defends US pullout from Afghanistan despite panic in Kabul

In his first public appearance since the Islamist insurgents seized control of the country at the weekend, Biden admitted the Taliban advance had unfolded more quickly than…

Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban where members of the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.

South Africans in the crossfire: Why I won’t leave Kabul

South African Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban, but the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.

British troops at Kandahar Airfield after leaving Camp Bastion for the final time.

After Afghanistan: What next for the troops?

Foreign troops have pulled back from Helmand province as their withdrawal from Afghanistan begins, leaving local forces to fight the Taliban.

US to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2016

The last of the United States military forces will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 2001 attacks in New York.

Obama: America’s decade of war is over

Obama: America’s decade of war is over

US President Barack Obama marked Veterans Day by celebrating the fact that America’s decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end.

In the latest bomb blast in Pakistan six shops were gutted and several damaged in the blast

US drone strike kills nine in Pakistan

A US drone aircraft has killed nine suspected militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, security officials say.

‘Thrill kill’ head of rogue US soldiers jailed for life

‘Thrill kill’ head of rogue US soldiers jailed for life

The ringleader of a rogue US army unit responsible for "thrill kills" of Afghan civilians has been sentenced to life behind bars.

US commander steps down in Afghanistan

US commander steps down in Afghanistan

General David Petraeus stepped down as United States commander in Afghanistan on Monday after a year at the helm of what is America’s longest war.

UK cuts fire power

The United Kingdom’s armed forces announced it will no longer be able to mount the kind of operations conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CIA paramilitaries’ role in Afghan civilian deaths

Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7 000ft up in the mountains.

Reaper drones bring remote control death

They fly at 50 000ft, are virtually invisible and carry a deadly payload of missiles and bombs. Meet the Reaper, a new variety of heavily armed drone.

Turncoat attack a blow to Afghanistan exit

The murder of three soldiers by a renegade Afghan casts a shadow over the UK’s plans to train the local army before withdrawing its own troops.

Trade in guns and drugs that fuels war in Afghanistan

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the Afghans whose fortunes lie in the risky, but lucrative, business of arms dealing.

In the north Afghans battle hunger, not the Taliban

The US decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is against hunger.

US forces kill civilians in Afghanistan air strike

US forces killed at least one child, video footage showed on Wednesday, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians.

UK arrests officer for secrets leak in Afghanistan

A senior British officer serving in Afghanistan has been arrested on suspicion of leaking official secrets, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.

Christmas turkeys fall prey to Taliban bomb

A lorry load of Christmas turkeys for British troops in Afghanistan on Friday fell victim to a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents.

Race to open new Afghan supply lines

Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.

Karzai slams ‘parallel government’ set-up

President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.