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Naveed Noormal is a former Afghan diplomat and commentator, and the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood chairs the House of Commons defence select committee.

The Afghan president has condemned the hasty withdrawal of US forces from his country for the intensified violence, as advancing Taliban fighters continue to seize ground. Elite Afghan commando units have now been deployed to Helmand, where the Taliban is battling to take control of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. Aid workers there have described…

About 100,000 Syrians, out of four million refugees in Turkey, have been allowed temporary rights to visit their homeland during the Eid al-Adha holiday. 

More than 200 former Afghan interpreters who worked alongside US forces have arrived at a military airbase near Washington DC, under a new visa scheme to help relocate them out of harm’s way.

We were joined from Cambridge by the Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, former Chief Scientific Adviser and then UK Special Representative for Climate Change until 2017, Sir David King.

The flash floods, the wildfires, the lightning strikes and the extreme weather that’s swept much of the world over the last month is prompting fears that climate change is accelerating at a pace faster than ever anticipated.

More than 40 former military commanders are calling for urgent action to help Afghans who served alongside British forces to settle in the UK.

A young man has been found guilty of secessionism and terrorism by a Hong Kong court – the first person to be tried under the territory’s sweeping national security law. 

In the United States, a special House of Representatives committee has begun its first hearings into the violent mob attack on the US Capitol on January 6, with testimony from four police officers who tried to fight off the rioters. 

President Biden is to pledge that the United States will end its military combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, as he meets the Iraqi prime minister at the White House.

Tunisia’s decade-old democracy is facing its biggest crisis yet, after the president ousted the government and suspended parliament last night amid fierce protests.

As London mops up from another day of flash floods, ministers from more than 50 countries have been in the city for a two-day meeting designed to make sure the UN’s climate change conference is a success.

The funeral for Haiti’s murdered president, Jovenel Moise, has been disrupted by violence. Foreign dignitaries were whisked away as tear gas wafted into the compound and mourners shouted abuse at the police chief, who some blame for failing to protect the president. Mr Moise was shot dead two weeks ago and a group of mostly…

A major wildfire has begun spreading from Northern California into Nevada, forcing residents in several communities to evacuate. Firefighters are battling to control the flames in temperatures soaring to 32 Celsius and high winds. There are more than 80 large wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest of America. Almost 22,000 firefighters have been deployed to…

A lawyer who witnessed the massacre of dozens of young people by far-right extremist Anders Breivik says the experience has made him realise how “precious life” is.