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British couple in their 70s arrested by the Taliban Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on 1 February when they were detained. The couple have been running training projects in Afghanistan for 18 years and their daughter, Sarah Entwistle, told the BBC she had not heard from her parents in more than two weeks.

British man's 'life is in danger' after health deteriorates in Afghan jail with his wife

Channel: World World March 16, 2025 By Danny Rigg
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Adult star poses in Afghanistan national park despite Taliban banning women

Channel: World World March 7, 2025 By Kyriakos Petrakos
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I haven't seen my family in 3.5 years - my daughter doesn't recognise me

Channel: World World February 27, 2025 By Irshad
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Channel: Cricket Cricket February 27, 2025 By Louis Sealey
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Channel: Cricket Cricket February 27, 2025 By Tom Olver
British couple in their 70s arrested by the Taliban Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on 1 February when they were detained. The couple have been running training projects in Afghanistan for 18 years and their daughter, Sarah Entwistle, told the BBC she had not heard from her parents in more than two weeks.

British couple in their 70s detained in Afghanistan 'for training women'

Channel: World World February 24, 2025 By Danny Rigg
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Darren Gough names team that can 'surprise everyone' at the Champions Trophy

Channel: Cricket Cricket February 20, 2025 By Louis Sealey
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Every country on the UK Foreign Office 'do not travel' list in February 2025

Channel: Travel Travel February 20, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
Play Video MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 29: A Taliban delegation led by Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai holds a press conference after a meeting with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin's special envoy to Afghanistan, in Moscow, Russia on January 29, 2021. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Taliban minister 'forced to flee' Afghanistan after supporting girls’ education

Channel: World World February 5, 2025 By Katie Boyden

I was so haunted by a soldier's tattoo I had to tell his story

Channel: UK UK February 3, 2025 By Lisa Carter
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Two powerful SAS rifles and 500 bullets have gone missing in the past year

Channel: UK UK January 27, 2025 By Kyriakos Petrakos
Scenic view of sea and mountains against blue sky in Aqaba, Jordan

Every country on the UK Foreign Office 'do not travel' list

Channel: Travel Travel February 20, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
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European holiday hotspot named as one of world's most dangerous countries

Channel: Travel Travel January 13, 2025 By Courtney Pochin
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- SEPTEMBER 14, 2021: Waheza used to work in the parliament of the previous government and is now an activist living in hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Waheza was active in the protests for women's rights and was beaten during the protest by the Taliban. Her mother remembers the last Taliban rule. She recently discovered that her next door neighbors are Taliban supporters and would host Taliban fighters for dinners. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Taliban bans women from being seen from neighbouring homes

Channel: World World December 30, 2024 By Tom Sanders
epa11793033 Armed Taliban security personnel at a checkpoint, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 25 December 2024. Afghanistan's Taliban government has accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes that allegedly targeted areas in Paktika province resulting in civilian casualties, including children. The Taliban condemned the attacks as a 'brutal act' and a violation of international law. Pakistani authorities have long accused the Taliban government of sheltering Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) camps, as Pakistan claims the group uses Afghan soil for attacks. EPA/QUDRATULLAH RAZWAN

Taliban says Pakistan 'killed 50 refugees' fleeing airstrikes in Afghanistan

Channel: World World December 25, 2024 By Sam Courtney-Guy
In this photo taken on May 21, 2024, Afghan deminers from the Halo Trust prepare to detonate unexploded ordnance (UXO) at a hill in Deh Sabz district of Kabul. The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) / To go with AFP story Afghanistan-mines-clearing-accident-children, REPORTAGE by Qubad Wali and Pascale Trouillaud (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Ex-Taliban fighters helping charities locate landmines they planted in Afghanistan

Channel: World World December 22, 2024 By Luke Alsford
Woman on the street next to a Taliban fighter

Afghan women arrested for begging 'raped and tortured' by Taliban

Channel: World World November 30, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Caption: More than ?4,000,000 worth of armoured Land Rovers left by UK in Afghanistan credit: GETTY / REX

UK left £4,000,000 of Army vehicles for Taliban to seize

Channel: UK UK December 11, 2024 By Josh Layton
A group of Afghan women clad in burqas walk towards a market in Ghazni, 04 August 2007. Afghanistan's Taliban are holding out for a neutral venue for talks with South Korea over the fate of 21 hostages they are threatening to kill.The Al-Qaeda-backed militants, who are demanding that some of their men are freed from jail in exchange for the captives, have agreed to talks with the South Koreans, but are refusing to meet them in government-controlled territory.The South Korean aid workers, most of whom are female, are said to be ill after being held for more than two weeks in sweltering southern Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban bans women from hearing each other

Channel: World World October 30, 2024 By Brooke Davies
FILE - TV anchor Nesar Nabil wears a face mask to protest the Taliban's new order that female presenters cover their faces, as he reads the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban bans media from showing all living beings under bizarre new law

Channel: World World October 18, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

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