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They burn plastic to keep warm. the air in here is thick and acrid. it still is not safe for them to return, he says. "we would have moved to pakistan, but pakistan closed its borders to us." afghanistans long war may be over but the afghan peoples suffering endures. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kabul. one of the biggest illegal dark net websites has gone offline after two years of selling class a drugs, counterfeit cash and malware used to hack and disable computers. the administrators of tor...

Western diplomats would say they werent trying to build perfection here, they werent trying to create switzerland. who knows what they were trying to create, but it wasnt this. it wasnt a country where half the people, more than half the people are going hungry and babies like soraya are near starvation. should afghanistan now be left to struggle alone? for two decades, afghans of all ages were trapped in a tempest of violence between western forces and the taliban. those battles are now over, b...

The air in here is thick and acrid. it still is not safe for them to return, he says. "we would have moved to pakistan, but pakistan closed its borders to us." afghanistans long war may be over but the afghan peoples suffering endures. the headlines on bbc news... a "bring your own booze" party in the garden of the home of the british prime minister at the height of the first lockdown. boris johnson faces fresh anger over claims he broke the rules. with freezing temperatures and a blanket of sno...

Thank god shes so much better than she was. the doctor has said we should wait here until the swelling goes down. ten years ago, i lived next door to this hospital. it was a time of a great surge of men, material and billions of dollars into afghanistan. western diplomats would say they werent trying to build perfection here, they werent trying to create switzerland. who knows what they were trying to create, but it wasnt this. it wasnt a country where half the people, more than half the people ...

Door to this hospital. it was a time of a great surge of men, material and billions of dollars into afghanistan. western diplomats would say we were not trying to build perfection here, they werent trying to create switzerland. who knows what they were trying to create? but it wasnt this. it wasnt a country where half the people, more than half the people are going hungry, and babies like soraya are near starvation. should afghanistan now be left to struggle alone? for two decades, afghans of al...

Should afghanistan now be left to struggle alone? for two decades, afghans of all ages were trapped in a tempest of violence between western forces and the taliban. those battles are now over, but the afghan peoples suffering endures. for them there is no respite. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kabul. its notjust food insecurity that has caused problems. theres also mass displacement, with refugees seeking safety and asylum across borders. as you can see, afghanistan shares a border with iran an...