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Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were warned repeatedly that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was scheming to attack the US using hijacked passenger jets — but still failed to stop the 9/11 attacks, according to a devastating cache of files released by the Trump administration Friday.

Migrants risk being granted asylum despite not being entitled to protection because of failings in Home Office decision-making, a damning United Nations audit has warned.

In October 2021, journalist Shahid Zehri was driving home to Karachi through the town of Hub, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, when a bomb planted under his car seat detonated. He died of his injuries hours later.

Afghanistan’s central bank imposed a nationwide ban on cryptocurrencies this month and the Taliban regime has arrested several dealers who defied orders to stop trading digital tokens, according to a senior police official.

Pavel Durov reacted to his inclusion in the Russian list of terrorists and extremists with an ironic collage. In one photo — Durov himself with the caption “accomplice of terrorists.”

A catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach that exposed the personal details of tens of thousands of Afghans was a “foreseeable failure” covered up by secrecy for “too long”, a damning investigation has concluded.

A 20-year-old man in the UK who was under the scanner of security agencies after a trip to Pakistan has been convicted of sharing and possessing Islamist terrorist material.

Haji Najibullah appeared unbothered as he walked into Manhattan federal court earlier this week to learn whether he would face life behind bars for his role in brutal violence during his time as a Taliban commander – including the 2008 kidnapping of US journalist David Rohde.

Promoted to governor of Kabul in late 2023, Aminullah Obaid cut his teeth in central Afghanistan’s Daykundi Province.

A women’s rights activist and frequent guest on Afghan radio programs, M. was arrested in Kabul in 2025 on the pretext that her hijab was improperly worn.

Hundreds of Afghan women have been refused asylum in the UK in the past year amid plummeting grant rates, new analysis shows.

An Afghan war hero has been left with severe brain injuries after he was reportedly attacked while working as a security guard.

An asylum seeker who abducted and raped a 12-year-old in an attack which sparked protests in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, has been jailed.

The man had been convicted along with another of entering a family home in Khost province and killing everyone inside by shooting them.

Whistleblower tells Afghan leak inquiry those affected were told to move and change phone numbers to protect themselves.

Peace negotiations between Pakistan and Afghanistan collapsed, just one day after both parties accused each other of initiating border clashes that threatened to violate a ceasefire facilitated by Qatar.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), marking a continued decline since the Taliban’s 2022 nationwide ban on poppy farming.

An Afghan TikToker who threatened to murder Nigel Farage was on the run from police in Sweden over a litany of crimes when he arrived in the UK on a small boat, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Afghanistan experienced a significant internet blackout on Tuesday after the ruling Taliban pledged to cut off access as part of a crackdown on “immoral activities,” raising concerns about further isolation for millions living under their increasingly strict rule.

The Taliban has promised not to relinquish "even one metre" of Afghanistan after Donald Trump expressed his desire to reclaim a former US airbase in the country.

A British couple who had been held in detention by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and have flown out of the country, the Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement.

The US is taking steps to reclaim the Bagram airbase from the Taliban after losing it during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced.

A woman who was arrested by the Taliban alongside an elderly British couple has warned that they are “literally dying” in prison.

The Government is unable to calculate the total cost of a secret relocation plan it set up following the Afghan data leak, Britain’s public spending watchdog has said.

A former health minister of Afghanistan is seeking asylum in the UK while staying at a migrant hotel that has faced anti-immigration protests.