The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim to be 140 years old – which, if verified, would make him the oldest person ever to have lived. Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s ...

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The Taliban government accused Pakistan on Tuesday of violently expelling Afghans after Islamabad cancelled hundreds of ...

Afghan women’s rights activists are facing deportation from Pakistan, along with hundreds of thousands of Afghans living there. The activists risk imprisonment or death if they return to life ...

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A British pensioner held hostage for more than nine weeks by the Taliban has described his torment inside Afghanistan's most notorious prison as 'the nearest thing to hell I can imagine'.

A disgruntled customer took an axe to his local phone shop and threatened to “smash up” the store in a rage after claiming he had been sold a faulty handset, a court has heard. Raymond Barrowes, 62, ...

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The son of a British couple who are being held hostage by the Taliban has urgently pleaded to Donald Trump for help, revealing what conditions are like in the jail. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his ...