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A British couple who spent nearly eight months in Taliban guardianship in Afghanistan say they were shuttled between 10 incarcerations and stressed they would be executed. Peter Reynolds, 80, and his woman Barbie, 76, were released last week and arrived back in the UK on Saturday. They said they were noway told why they were…
A Taliban functionary has rejected the idea that the US could regain a crucial airbase in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump told journalists he wanted it back. Zakir Jalal, who works in the Taliban’s foreign ministry, said the idea of the US maintaining any military presence in Afghanistan was” fully” rejected during addresses between the…
The British government still doesn’t know how much it will cost to relocate thousands of Afghans whose personal details were exposed in a massive Ministry of Defence data leak, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. The MoD has put the price tag of the breach and the emergency relocation program it created at £850…
