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Afghanistan

October 2026

  • US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth meets with Wes Streeting at the Pentagon

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10: Hegseth ‘wrong’ to say most non-US Nato soldiers didn’t fight in Afghanistan – as it happened

    Downing Street delivered a rare rebuke to a senior member of Donald Trump’s administration
  • An Afghan girl shells pistachios on the floor of her mud home.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I am still a child, it cannot be good to be married’: how drought forces Afghan families to sell girls as brides

    As climate breakdown pushes families to starvation, many feel forced to ‘sacrifice’ daughters to save siblings, with girls as young as eight and 10 engaged or married to repay debts or pay for food

    • SAS personnel ‘refusing to answer’ questions about alleged extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan

    • Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

    • Labour offers too little, too late for Afghan women and girls

September 2026

  • People walk along a path between tents, rubble and destroyed buildings

    UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians

  • Afghanistan’s Fariba Hashimi celebrates with her medal alongside her sister Yuldoz Hashimi and teammate Zahra Rezayee

    Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver

  • Patients in Sierra Leone at a pharmacy window

    Poorest countries hit hardest by UK aid cuts under Keir Starmer government, new figures reveal

  • soldiers salute next to a flag draped coffin in a hearse

    IS member sentenced to 20 years in prison for role in 2021 Kabul airport bombing

  • CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11

  • double quotation markAfter 9/11, I lived through Australia’s long war in Afghanistan. There are lessons the world must learn

    Shadi Khan Saif

  • double quotation markOsama bin Laden shook the world on 9/11. Today it is clear how his wider plans failed

    Jason Burke

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan

August 2026

  • People gather on the steps of the courthouse holding up banners that say: 'Justice for Jasmeet Wadhwa'

    British family pleads with French authorities to release body of relative who died in Channel

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    double quotation markHow young women can learn to better wield economic power

    Heather Stewart
  • A billboard features the president and first lady in Sierra Leone, which raised the minimum marriage age to 18 in 2024.

    The Guardian view on child marriage: girls should not be wives

  • A black and white portrait of Luke Harding behind a swirling orange graphic

    Conversations
    ‘The Trump-Putin relationship is the biggest mystery in international politics’: foreign correspondent Luke Harding answered your questions

  • Rights and freedom
    double quotation markThe Taliban have built a system for enslaving women in Afghanistan

    Amanda Abou Abdallah

  • Brief letters
    The decent way for countries to engage with the Taliban

  • TV review
    25 Years in Afghanistan review – the extraordinary life of an optimist

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