BBC News
By The Visual Journalism Team
BBC News
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image captionA market trader in Kandahar, the last major Taliban stronghold to fall to the US in 2001
US and Nato troops are finally withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. The Taliban, who they came to defeat, are rapidly retaking territory across the country.
How has the war changed Afghanistan, and what comes next?
Are the Taliban back?
The Taliban - a fundamentalist Islamist militia - were forced from power when US-led forces invaded in 2001. Democratic presidential elections and a new constitution were established, but the Taliban waged a long insurgency, gradually regaining strength and drawing more US and Nato forces into the conflict.
Modern Diplomacy
Published 1 week ago
Democracies have an inbuilt flaw when their own processes can be employed to undermine them. It is what has happened in Hungary in the last decade, and Hungary is not alone.
In his youth the current prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, was an ardent dissident leading a youth movement, Fidesz, and in 1989 he was calling for the removal of Soviet troops and free democratic elections. Opposition to single-party socialist rule was eventually successful, and he was elected a Fidesz member of the National Assembly in 1990.
In 1998, his party won a plurality, and he served his first term as prime minister until 2002 when the socialists returned to power. However, a landslide victory in 2010 gave Orban a two-thirds supermajority, and with it the power to amend constitutional laws.
Workers Revolutionary Party
A severely malnourished child in hospital in Yemen â the Tory government is cutting aid contribution from £164m down to £87m in 2021
THE BRITISH government has decided to âbalance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,â in an act that will see tens of thousands die and damage the UKâs global influence, the head of the UNâs Office for Humanitarian Affairs has said.
Mark Lowcock, formerly a senior figure in the UKâs Department for International Development, said he was shocked by the decision to slash the UKâs Yemen aid budget.