Afghanistan: Last News

Firefighters have sealed off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh this afternoon after a fire broke out at a historic Old Town pub.

A former soldier left his ex-wife 'completely broken' after committing a cruel scam. Daniel Fairfield, 33, took out a huge loan under the name of his former partner, without her knowing anything about the £20,0000 sum.

CNN and PBS took home two prizes apiece, headlining Monday’s duPont-Columbia Awards handed out by Columbia Journalism School.

A police officer allegedly raped a woman and then pushed her down the stairs, a court has heard. Martyn Coulter is on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh accused of raping and assaulting the woman at an address in East Lothian in 2013.

The official trailer for Guy Ritchie's upcoming film The Covenant was released on MGM's YouTube account on Thursday.In the clip, Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed a former soldier who returned to Afghanistan to rescue an interpreter who had previously saved his life during an ambush from the forces of the Taliban.The movie - whose star was recently spotted on the set of one of Presumed Innocent -  is currently scheduled to be released to the public later this year.The Covenant's trailer begins with a squadron led by Sergeant John Kinley, played by Gyllenhaal, coming under attack from members of the Taliban.After the soldier is knocked nearly unconscious during the skirmish, it is revealed that the scene is just Kinley's recollection of the events, and he tells a friend that he only remembers the actions of the squadron's interpreter. A taste of what's to come: The official trailer for Guy Ritchie's upcoming film The Covenant was released on MGM's YouTube account on Thursday Gyllenhaal's character is then shown asking Ahmed, played by Dar Salim, why he wants to work as an interpreter, to which he honestly responds 'I need the money.'After Kinley tells Ahmed not to be 'a pain in the a**,' one of his squadmates reveals that 'money isn't the reason [Ahmed] wants this job.

EXCLUSIVE: Add another wide release to the 2023 theatrical release calendar as Open Road has just dated the Gerard Butler action movie Kandahar for May 26, Memorial Day weekend.

Prince Harry, 38, has made a number of claims in his book, Spare, with many commenting on the Duke of Sussex's shocking claims about his royal life.

BBC Storyville has appointed Emma Hindley as its Lead Commissioning Editor.

Taliban officials and supporters have been buying blue ticks on free speech warrior Elon Musk’s Twitter.

In his latest stop on the Spare book tour, Prince Harry told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show last night addressed the controversial inclusion in his new memoir of the number of his kills while serving in the British Army during the war against Afghanistan.

The Oscars declined to give a platform to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year, but the Golden Globes made up for it tonight, offering him an opportunity to speak directly to an American and world audience.

Clearing the air. Prince Harry has responded to criticism that he “boasted” about his wartime experience in his Spare memoir.

Prince Harry has accused the Royal Family of "getting into bed with the devil" to rehabilitate their image.

A friend of King Charles has said he is "perplexed" by Prince Harry's claims in his memoir and argues that the Duke is "clearly a very troubled man".

A former model who shared a steamy kiss with Prince Harry when he was 17 has mocked him on social media after he revealed he lost his virginity to an older woman. CEO of Cotswold Airport, Suzannah Harvey, previously claimed to have been 'ambushed' at the Beaufort Hunt Christmas Ball when Prince Harry was just a teenager.

Andrew went on to say it was “unsavoury” of the Duke to be “proud of kills made from the world's most advanced and sophisticated attack helicopter” when the enemy was “armed largely with Soviet-era AK47 rifles.”In his new column for the Daily Mail, the journalist went on to accuse Harry of “breaching” the “long-standing convention” among British military veterans of all ranks that they “don't talk much about the wars they waged, and never about 'kills’.”Since Harry’s alleged claims were made public,Taliban leaders have lashed out at Harry's assertions in his new bombshell book Spare that he killed more than two dozen Taliban fighters who he regarded as "chess pieces" to be taken off the board.One leader branded the Duke of Sussex a "loser", while another accused the 38-year-old of "war crimes".Anas Haqqani took to Twitter today in the wake of the explosive claims made in the Prince's memoir where he has, unusually for a former soldier, chosen to reveal a body count stacked up during his second tour of Afghanistan as a gunner in Apache attack helicopters.Mr Haqqani, a leading figure in the Haqqani Network, part of the Taliban in Afghanistan, expressed his outrage at the Duke of Sussex's comments.He wrote on Twitter: "The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return.“Among the killers of Afghans, not many have your decency to reveal their conscience and confess to their war crimes."Writing for Express.co.uk former British Army Commander Colonel Richard Kemp said letting it be known how many fighters he killed "will re-kindle jihadist animosity against him and incite some who want to take revenge".He said: "His accusation that the British Army trains its

Well, this was unexpected. Of all the things we thought Prince Harry would discuss in his memoir Spare, the reveal that he’s killed a couple dozen people was definitely not on our Tell-All Bingo card.

Prince Harry dealt with a particularly bad case of frostbite back in 2011 after a trip to the North Pole — and he’s re-living it in his forthcoming memoir Spare!

Prince Harry's brand new memoir Spare has already got the whole world talking before its release as it was accidentally put on sale in Spain, meaning some inside royal secrets have already been brought to light.

Andrew Neil, 73, has unleashed his opinion on excerpts of Prince Harry's autobiography that were leaked earlier than its proposed release next week.The popular journalist took to Twitter to share his anger towards Harry as he claimed to kill 25 Taliban during his time in Afghanistan, starting an "absolute nightmare".Harry's memoir, Spare, is due to be released next week but has been leaked and accidentally put on sale in Spain.In it, he reportedly claimed he killed 25 people when he was an Apache helicopter pilot during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan.In the heat of combat, the Prince did not think of the 25 as "people" but instead as "chess pieces" that had been taken off the board, The Telegraph reported.Prince Harry wrote: "So my number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me."Many have shared their anger at the Duke of Sussex, sharing such details, including Andrew who took to Twitter in view of 1.2 million followers.He wrote: "Harry’s claim that he killed 25 Taliban is a nightmare — an absolute nightmare — for his security teams.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican party outcast as a member of the January 6th Committee, is joining CNN as senior political commentator.