THE BURRAVOE branch of the Scottish Women’s Institute (SWI) is hosting what promises to be a compelling talk by one of the country’s better known journalists. Former Sunday Times news editor Andrew ...

ALGERIAN Boudjema Bounoua, who adopted the nom de guerre Abdullah Anas, recounts his experiences fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside fellow Mujaheddin. Anas’s ...

CORRECTS THAT BASHIR NOORZAI WAS RELEASED FROM AN AMERICAN PRISON NOT GUANTANAMO BAY -Taliban fighters and supporters attend a release ceremony for Bashir Noorzai, a senior Taliban detainee held at an ...

Accordingly, Amir Nasr Azadani, a footballer who was also an accomplice in the terrorist act, got a 16-year jail term. The terrorist attack took place in the Mahaleh Khaneh of Isfahan on November 10 ...

A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were "not chess pieces, they were humans". In the highly-anticipated memoir, Harry wrote of blasting away ...

WASHINGTON: In the chronicles of military hardware, the Stinger missile has an outsized reputation. Formally called the FIM-92 Stinger and manufactured by the American military major Raytheon, it is a ...

America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan may be fading from the West’s collective memory, but history could be repeating itself with the conflict in Ukraine. The US, UK and other Western allies have ...

Taliban members pose for a photo after they took over Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan on September 6, 2021. (Picture: Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Disturbing footage has emerged of ...

The news website Stuff reported that the searches were revealed in a court document relating to Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen released on Monday. The revelation on Monday followed the lifting late ...

The British-educated son of one of Afghanistan’s most revered anti-Taliban warlords is the last holdout against the Taliban, staking his claim in the Panjshir Valley about 100 miles north of Kabul.

The Taliban has completed a rapid takeover of Afghanistan after the United States and other Western countries ended their near 20-year missions there. Despite western countries training thousands of ...

Iran’s supreme leader officially endorsed his hard-line protégé Ebrahim Raisi as the nation’s next president on Tuesday, two days ahead of an inauguration ceremony. It comes at a sensitive time for ...