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ITV News has spoken to Afghans who worked for the UK in Afghanistan and could be under threat from the Taliban following a data breach.
DEFENCE chiefs are braced for a £1billion compensation bill over a data breach which revealed Afghans who supported UK forces. Around 100,000 were put at risk of Taliban death squads when
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inews.co.uk on MSNMy brother worked for the British Army in Afghanistan – now I fear for his lifeA former translator for UK forces says his brother is among thousands of Afghans now at risk after their details were disclosed in a huge data breach
Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to travel to Afghanistan. View on euronews
Manchester-based law firm Brings Legal stated it has already registered nearly 1,000 Afghan ARAP applicants for potential legal proceedings. These individuals were part of a UK government initiative to resettle Afghans who had worked alongside British forces and were at risk after the Taliban’s return to power.
An Afghan interpreter who worked with the British military has told Sky News he feels betrayed by the British government after a massive data breach saw his personal details revealed.
A 45-year-old man who married a six-year-old girl shocked the Taliban with his abhorrent wedding ceremony, with the militant extremists handing down a grim order
The Defence Secretary has apologised for the leak and said he was "confident" there was a reduced risk of future data breaches.
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Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations.
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Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows.