Afghanistan

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney in 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File

Victoria Cross holder found by judge to have committed war crimes in Afghanistan

The most widely recognised flags of Scotland are the Saltire and Lion Rampant but there are even more niche examples.

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Andy Reid climbed Mt Kilimanjaro (photo: Guinness World Records)

UK amputee sets new world record for highest burger delivery

US President Joe Biden has been accused of hating Britain.

Biden doesn’t hate Britain, he’s just not fawning over the special relationship

Scotland celebrate their win over Canada at the World Championships.

Scotland's curling world champions are an inspiration to the nation

Canada's population grew by over a million in a year.

Canada’s population grow by one million in a year for first time in history

The epicentre of the earthquake is believed to be in Afghanistan.

Earthquake measuring 6.5 hits Afghanistan and Pakistan

Tourists feed seagulls in front of the Presidential palace in Helsinki, Finland. The country was named the happiest nation in the world for the sixth year in a row.

What are the world's happiest countries in 2023?

Ice hockey fans celebrate in Helsinki, after Finland's team won the Winter Olympic Games gold medal last year (Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

World Happiness Report contains a lesson about the benefits of social democracy

Home Secretary Suella Braverman presented the Illegal Migration Bill in parliament.

Mhairi Black hits out as Braverman lays out plans to block asylum seekers

Migrants picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel are escorted off from a UK Border Force boat upon arrival at the Marina in Dover, southeast England, last year.

Why new ‘deterrent’ to stop non-legal arrivals in UK is pointless

Religious faith can inspire conviction politicians (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Church of the Latter Day Woke’ is more worrying than believers like Kate Forbes

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf (left) walks down after taking the oath as a civilian president at the presidential palace in Islamabad. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf dies

Green Goddesses lined up at Redford Barracks

Remembering when workers went on strike in Scotland in 2002-03

Harry, Duke of Sussex, appeared on CBS late night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening (US time)

Harry addresses Taliban controversy on Late Show appearance in US

A poster advertising the launch of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, on sale from today, is seen in a shop window (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Harry doesn't seem to realise 'the media' can't be controlled by royal decree

Harry: The Interview with Tom Bradby - how to watch on TV

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attending the Invictus Games athletics events in the Athletics Park, at Zuiderpark the Hague, Netherlands. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Harry accused of making Invictus Games a target with Taliban kills details

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, with wife Meghan. Picture: PA

If you treat a rich family like celebrities, don't be surprised at the drama

The Duke of Sussex has now turned against his “other family, the military” after revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, a retired British Army colonel has said.

Ex-colonel says Harry has now turned against his ‘other family, the military’

Prince Harry reveals he killed 25 Taliban while serving in Afghanistan

'We will always take the necessary steps to protect our staff and business interests,' says Menzies Aviation. Picture: contributed.

Menzies Aviation awarded multi-million-pound sum regarding Afghanistan dispute

Mike is aiming to launch his new campaign soon.

Ex-TV news man's book to fund campaign to ban headers in football

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital's public parks, gyms and funfairs. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban hard-liners now add gyms to list of no-go areas for women

An aerial view of a road between Kharkiv and Izyum is impassable after a bridge was destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and occupying-Russian forces, on October 08, 2022 in Izyum, Ukraine. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images

MoD in update on Russia's aircraft losses

A man carries a child as he runs to board a smuggler's boat in northern France last month, in an attempt to cross the English Channel.

Is the United Kingdom really a 'magnet' for asylum seekers?

Aaron Finch lifts ICC World Cup Trophy with Australia in 2021

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Suella Braverman, Secretary of State for the Home Department attends day three of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

Ban on asylum request for ‘illegal’ migrants ‘risks breaking international law’

Joshua Collins in 9 Circles. Pic: Contributed

Fringe theatre reviews: 9 Circles | The Golfer | Afghanistan Is Not Funny...

Very Rev Dr John Chalmers with his son, JJ Chalmers.

JJ Chalmers' father recalls the moment he heard his son had been in bomb blast

Mostaqim with x-ray images of the injuries he sustained in a suicide bomb attack.

'The international community should not forget Afghanistan'

People waving Afghan flags during a protest. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Charity condemns Government ‘malaise’ over shrinking Afghanistan aid

A US Marine lifts a baby over a barbed wire fence at Kabul's international airport as people scrambled to escape the advance of the Taliban in August last year (Picture courtesy of Omar Haidiri/AFP via Getty Images)

Kabul fiasco shows why UK needs to be more like France – Tim Willasey-Wilsey

JJ Chalmers paid tribute to the city of Birmingham during the BBC Broadcast

JJ Chalmers pays emotional tribute to Micky Yule in BBC interview

Clear guidance can help avoid sanctions errors - Stacy Keen

Myanmar refugees and their children, who fled a surge in violence as the military cracks down on rebel groups, at a camp in Nawphewlawl near the Myanmar-Thailand border in Kayin state.

Refugee numbers at highest-ever level, as UNHCR calls for peace effort

A barber, an internally displaced person who fled clashes between M23 rebels and Congolese soldiers, gives a haircut to another refugee in Kanyarushinya north of Goma in DRC.

'Don't forget about Africa' UNHCR pleads, as it warns of refugee funding crisis

A still image from a video released by Al-Qaedas media arm as-Sahab and obtained on September 11, 2012 courtesy of the Site Intelligence Group shows al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video, speaking from an undisclosed location on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

US kills Al-Qaeda leader in drone strike

The SAS's storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 after terrorists shot two of their 19 hostages helped make the Regiment's reputation (Picture: David Levenson/Keystone/Getty Images)

SAS death squads exposed? We need a serious, independent inquiry

Tha an t-seann chluicheadair criogaid Freddie Flintoff a’ feuchainn ri òigridh a thàladh chun gheama (Dealbh: BBC)

Chan eil sinn idir ag aithneachadh a’ bhuannachd ann an spòrs

Boys play cricket in front of a school that was damaged during the conflict between the Taliban and Afghanistan's former ruling government, in Kandahar in May. Incidents in Afghanistan account for 30 per cent of all verified occasions of violations against children in conflict situations. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scale of grave violations against children in conflict revealed in new report

Alexander Lindsay's fortcoming exhibition includes work captured in St Kilda.

Photographer who documented Iraq and Afghanistan turns focus onto Scotland

Villagers along with rescue workers examine the extent of damage at a village following an earthquake in Bernal district, Paktika province,which killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless.

How the Taliban regime has had to ask for international help after earthquake

A severe earthquake shook four districts of Paktika province, killing and injuring hundreds

At least 255 dead after magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits Afghanistan

Two Afghan children collect recyclable material from a garbage dump in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

Analysis: Why the Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster

Politically ambitions: Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat

Everything you need to know about Tom Tugendhat

Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 22, 2022, on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images)

Russia suffers similar death toll in Ukraine invasion to nine-year war- MoD

Former England batter and assistant coach Graham Thorpe, who is "seriously ill" in hospital, the Professional Cricketers' Association has said. Picture; Jason O'Brien/PA Wire.

Former England batter Graham Thorpe ‘seriously ill’ in hospital

Pat Black has been appointed to the W7.

'I kept breaking glass ceilings': The Edinburgh woman working for the W7

Refugees fleeing Ukraine may struggle to find sanctuary in the UK because of Home Office red tape and delays (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees' struggles to get visas are sign of UK's broken government

File photo dated 13/01/20 of Julian Assange. Julian Assange's extradition to the United States is expected to move one step closer today. Westminster Magistrates' Court is formally expected to issue an order to extradite the WikiLeaks founder after years of legal toing and froing. Issue date: Wednesday April 20, 2022.

Julian Assange’s extradition to the US moves closer after ruling

The bright colours of the Ukraine flag were beamed on to St Giles’ Cathedral in the heart of Edinburgh

Hope is the invisible thread that unites us all - Sally Foster-Fulton

Prince Harry (left) talking to JJ Chalmers during the Invictus Games 2016

JJ Chalmers explains why he is ‘forever grateful’ to Prince Harry

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says Russia has confirmed the use of thermobaric rockets – often called vacuum bombs – in Ukraine and is also “likely” deploying private mercenaries.

Russia confirms use of vacuum bombs - What is a vacuum bomb?

Home secretary Priti Patel. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Afghan families in Edinburgh still waiting on permanent housing

Leanne Clelland, communications officer, Christian Aid Scotland

Aiding the starving of Afghanistan - Leanne Clelland

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As of March 31, 7,849 Scots had been waiting over two years for inpatient, outpatient or day care treatment from NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland's waiting times 'demonstrably worse' than south of the border

Glasgow's low emission zone is bounded by the M8, River Clyde and High Street/Saltmarket. Picture: John Devlin

All you need to know about driving into Glasgow's new low emission zone

Union chiefs have demanded action over reports of violence

Airport check-in staff assaulted and abused by ‘thuggish’ passengers – GMB union