Taleban
Boris faces a backlash from Tory MPs over Afghanistan
After the Taliban took over Kabul and announced victory in Afghanistan, a scramble is underway by diplomats and many Afghans…
The real reason Biden was prepared to let Kabul fall
The speed of the Taliban’s advance, culminating in Sunday’s capture of Kabul, has been widely put forward as proof that…
Compound failure
What we got wrong in Afghanistan
China is the latest victim of Pakistan’s Islamist problem
Nine Chinese engineers were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Dasu hydroelectric dam last Wednesday. The government initially said that their…
Leave, convert or perish: The fate of Afghanistan’s minorities
President Biden’s decision to ‘end the war in Afghanistan’ means the complete withdrawal of 3,500 US troops by the 20th…
Triumph of the Taleban
Their patience is paying off
In Afghanistan, Trump and the Taleban want the same thing – Americans out
‘Incoming! Incoming! Incoming!’ As morning alarms go, this one leaves a lot to be desired. Normally I wake up to…
There were far fewer terror attacks last year. Here’s why
They don’t like to use the ‘Q’ word in counter-terrorism. It’s a bit like blurting out the name of the…
Afghanistan’s new agony
So many lives lost, a trillion dollars spent, yet the Taleban is resurgent
Taleban
Toxic virus or Taleban: it’s funny how the mild-mannered Liz Kendall has attracted for her Blairite associations the most violently…
Portrait of the week
Home Tom Hayes, aged 35, a former City trader who rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while…
Was this man really worse than the Taleban?
Feature writers aren’t often acclaimed for their courage, but Neil Lyndon deserves a bronze plaque in St Bride’s. Twenty-two years…
The terror whisperer
Jonathan Powell’s stance on negotiating with violent extremists is consistently inconsistent and slippery
Where have all the leaders gone?
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
Terror’s comeback kids
Jihadi groups like ISIS rarely manage to hold their ground – but that doesn’t mean they’re going away
Afghanistan year zero
All bets are off when the US troops pull out
Is it ever possible to fight a war in full accordance with the Human Rights Act?
The ghost people, the letter people. The ones we hear about in court but never call by their real name;…
Malala’s school wars
It’s not state education but private education she’s fighting for – so why doesn’t the media admit that?
The courage of her convictions
In 2012 a Taleban gunman, infuriated by Malala Yousafzai’s frequent television appearances insisting that girls had a right to education,…
