Former members of the United Kingdom’s special forces have described alleged war crimes committed by British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq dating back over a decade. More than 30 witnesses who ...

October 7, 2001 – Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes ...

Special forces of any country are considered the sword arm of its defence forces. They are sent to carry out the most dangerous military operations, often behind enemy lines, and their stories are the ...

Former officer in Afghanistan alleges executions took place Accusations cover 2010-13 period during war on Taliban UK defence ministry ordered inquiry after media report A former senior British ...

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, are victims of a deepening internal power struggle within the Taliban, sources say An elderly British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan are ...

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday praised the hundreds of British troops who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq “alongside our allies,” in an oblique rebuke of U.S. Vice ...

An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme. The man was ...

Officials say Taliban fighters attacked the coalition camp in Helmand Province. Sept. 14, 2012— -- Taliban fighters today launched a complex and sustained attack on the large U.S.-British ...

Qatari and British diplomats, left, pose with the released British couple, Barbie and Peter Reynolds, aboard a plane before departing to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (Qatar ...

LONDON – A British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges arrived in the U.K. on Saturday after being released by the Taliban. Peter and Barbie Reynolds, aged 80 ...

The Taliban on Monday confirmed the arrest of a British couple in their 70s in Afghanistan after a plea from their children for their release. The four adult children of Peter and Barbie Reynolds said ...