Pandora Papers: 'One rule for the rich, another for ordinary people'

There are some hard and difficult lessons to be learned about the recent events in Afghanistan, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. It was a tragedy that the Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly, Mr Stoltenberg told BBC World News. He blamed a lack of leadership and logistics from the Afghan government, rather than…

The presence of Nato in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said. The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome, and produced good results for the country, Hamid Karzai told BBC World News. But the military plans to fight…

Afghan news anchor Behishta Arghand made history when she interviewed the Taliban.

Ayse Bugra explains how her husband, philanthropist Osman Kavala, is coping in jail.

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is spreading rapidly throughout the world and has been detected in 124 territories the World Health Organisation has said. An emergency room doctor in the United States has told BBC World News about how the initial narrative of it being a virus which kills older people is now problematic as…

A single issue has dominated the US-Mexico relationship in recent years: immigration. For President Donald Trump, it was almost the only lens through which the White House considered its relationship with its neighbour to the south. Now, under President Joe Biden, migration remains the priority as record numbers make the journey north, often expecting entry…