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A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014 The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more
A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014 The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more
A teenage girl hailed a hero for gunning down two Taliban extremists who shot her parents dead in Afghanistan ‘killed her own husband’ when she opened fire, according to fresh reports. Qamar Gul, 15, was married to one of the two attackers she shot with an AK-47 after he tried to seize her back in … Read more
A former Manchester City footballer who grew up in Afghanistan has recalled the harrowing night she fled the Taliban aged 10 – after the terrorists executed her father. Nadia Nadim, 32, told how she, her mother and four sisters left Kabul on trucks and made the long journey to Europe, where they eventually settled in … Read more
Nigel Farage has been accused of inciting racism after he sensationally claimed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to be a ‘far-left Marxist organisation whose chief aim is to close down police forces’ in a blazing television row this morning over the toppling of a slave trader statue in Bristol. The Brexit Party leader also accused the … Read more
George W. Bush told a State Department official who tried to persuade him not to invade Afghanistan: ‘F*** it, we’re going to war’. The former president gave the blunt comment at Camp David days after 9/11 as he decided whether to go after the Taliban, a new documentary reveals. Mike Morell, Bush’s briefer about the … Read more
The Taliban have pledged their readiness to cooperate with healthcare workers instead of killing them, as fear of a coronavirus epidemic spreads in Afghanistan. Whatever reservations the militants previously held over eradicating the crippling disease, they have now clearly grasped the dangers posed by the pandemic sweeping the rest of the world. In the past … Read more
A top U.S. commander has voiced his disappointment at the level of violence being used by the Taliban, claiming that attacks are higher than the February 29 peace deal allows, as the military begins to pull out of two Afghan bases. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command (CENTOM) and the top U.S. commander … Read more
The United States and the Taliban have signed a peace agreement aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan, America’s longest. The signing could help President Donald Trump fulfill a key campaign promise to extract America from its ‘endless wars.’ Under the agreement, the U.S. will begin withdrawing thousands of troops in exchange for Taliban … Read more
President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s dispatching Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the signing of an agreement with the Afghan Taliban aimed at beginning a draw down of thousands of U.S. troops and ending America’s 18-year involvement in the war. Trump said Pompeo would soon, at the president’s direction, witness the signing of … Read more