Raphael Marshall,a former Foreign Office desk officer,said thousands of emails asking for help were never even read.
National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country.
Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team have arrived in Britain with the help of a New York rabbi,a UK soccer club and Kim Kardashian West.
The government has been facing increasing criticism for not granting a single humanitarian visa out of the initial 3000 places promised to fleeing Afghans.
Noor Ramazan packed one bag and bid his mother farewell,knowing he may never see her again. Yet he now knows how beautiful life can be.
In the three months since the Taliban took over,the number of children with nothing to eat has increased.
At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site,officials said.
A Taliban spokesman said two of the attackers who killed three people in a “personal feud” had been arrested,and he insisted they were not part of the Islamist movement.
Afghan arrivals are eligible for support under a $6.25 million NSW government funding package to provide help for temporary visa holders and asylum seekers.
The NSW lockdown has been lifted,but there are still restrictions in place for one family – restrictions enforced for years and with no apparent end in sight.
Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in southern Afghanistan,killing at least 47 people and wounding 70,a Taliban official said.