Some Afghan women have spoken out in favour of a blanket ban. "They are the Taliban team for me, not the Afghan team," said Marzieh Hamidi, the taekwondo champion who was Afghanistan's flagbearer at ...

UK Special Forces command rejected resettlement applications from more than 2,000 Afghan commandos who had shown credible evidence of service in units that fought alongside the SAS and SBS, the ...

An Afghan criminal whose asylum application was rejected drove a car into a crowd of demonstrators after reportedly posting a slew of Islamist rants online. Farhad N., 24, injured at least 28 ...

Pakistan's capital and the neighbouring city of Rawalpindi are witnessing a surge in deportations, arrests and detentions of ...

In 2010, school girls in Kabul play the game•Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Some Afghan women have spoken out in favour of a blanket ban. "They are the Taliban team for me, not the Afghan team ...

It was first revealed last year by the BBC’s Panorama documentary series that UK Special Forces command had been given veto ...

despite the Afghan units having fought with the British on life-threatening missions against the Taliban. The MoD had previously denied there was a blanket policy to reject members of the units ...