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A senior British civil servant risked revealing the locations of elite U.K. and U.S. troops in Afghanistan after leaving secret documents at a bus stop, two months before the country fell to the Taliban.

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Former interpreters fear for their lives after the UK blocks their evacuation on security grounds.

Thousands of Afghan refugees - including former interpreters who worked for British troops and children without their parents - are stuck in hotels and hostels in the UK with no date for when they will be moved to permanent homes following their evacuation from Afghanistan.

The foreign office and home office who do the processing need more people and more resources to make that happen, then i hope they do that. what i think they must also do is look at what other leavers they have available to them. dominic raab talked about withholding humanitarian aid and has been criticised for that. the other place we could put more pressure is through pakistan. the taliban have not sprung from nowhere. they are inherently part of the afghanistan society but they have been harb...

Allowed to live in peace. to which afghan said, we didnt do anything wrong, we were simply working. and so it was a message meant to reassure but actually it rattled people. not to forget the horrible, horrible stories about people being beheaded, people being killed. i think the taliban are very anxious will stop the one thing that has changed from their rule of the 1990s is that they are very much aware of international opinion, they very much dont want to be a pariah state, but they also emph...

Check paperwork and go through that, and i understand a part of what was going on. my personal view is if an individualfrom a particularfamily individual from a particular family have individualfrom a particularfamily have what you might call a reasonably plausible set of paperwork or details, then we should move them out of danger first and worry about the process of paperwork later. there is a balance there and i recognise there is a balance around issues like security and criminality, and i g...

Race against time to relocate NATOs Afghan translators SECTIONS Last Updated: Jun 09, 2021, 05:56 PM IST Share Synopsis Afghans who worked for international armed forces face a threatened wave of Taliban reprisals and fear that resettlement plans by alliance members will leave many of them and their relatives still vulnerable. AFP In this file photo taken on February 20, 2010 (FILES) In this file photo a US soldier from 4th Infantry Division 4 Brigade Alpha Company presents a gift to an Afghan ...

Race against time to relocate Afghan translators 5 hours ago A translator for the US Army listens during a security meeting with various members of the Afghan National Security Forces near Combat Outpost Hutal in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. File/Reuters Callum Paton and Mushtaq Mojaddidi, Agence France-Presse Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the c...

Race against time to relocate NATO’s Afghan translators 164 LONDON, June 3, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks. “The situation is deteriorating now as foreign forces leave,” he told AFP in Kabul. “We are scared of the insurgents. They know our faces.” Afghans who worked for international armed forces face a threatened wave of ...