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Ex-minister says no ‘fierce opposition’ to Afghan route amid data breach fallout
James Heappey said claims he had backed a ‘new entitlement’ for people affected by the breach but not eligible for other ...
We fear our sleepy UK village will be REVENGE target for Taliban after MoD blunder saw influx of fleeing Afghans
VILLAGERS living in the shadow of a refugee camp talked of their fears they could be caught up in a bloody revenge attack by the Taliban. Almost 20,000 Afghans have secretly been brought into ...
Ex-minister claims he was misled over fate of Afghan elite soldiers abandoned by UK and exposed in data breach
Ex-minister claims he was misled over fate of Afghan elite soldiers abandoned by UK and exposed in data breach - Former armed forces minister James Heappey has broken cover over what happened ...
MI6 operatives and UK special forces named in leaked Afghan database
Personal data of British officials was recorded in case notes of Afghans they were sponsoring for relocation to UK ...
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Former Armed Forces minister James Heappey says learning of Afghan data breach was ‘gut-wrenching’ in long apology
Former Armed Forces minister James Heappey has shared the "gut-wrenching" moment he learned of the Afghan data leak, ...
MoD braced for £1billion compensation bill after 100k lives put at risk of Taliban death squads by Afghan leak scandal
DEFENCE chiefs are braced for a £1billion compensation bill over a data breach which revealed Afghans who supported UK forces ...
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Left behind in Afghanistan: Tales from behind Taliban lines
ITV News has spoken to Afghans who worked for the UK in Afghanistan and could be under threat from the Taliban following a ...
Terror to tourism? Hostage-style video invites visitors to Taliban's Afghanistan
Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to ...
MoD offered to speed up resettlement case of Afghan who posted data breach names on Facebook
Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the ...
UN adopts resolution on Afghanistan’s Taliban rule over US objections
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse ...
Iran’s Expulsion of Afghans Deepens Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis
Iran has been expelling hundreds of thousands of Afghans—- threatening stability and worsening Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis ...
Taliban 'maintaining a balancing act' in relationships with other local jihadi groups, study shows
Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows.