Nine people, five of them children, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army convoy in Afghanistan, according to local police. Elsewhere the Taliban publicly hanged three men after accusing them of spying for British troops. With the approach of spring, violence has surged in Afghanistan in …

The brother of a London man freed from Guantánamo Bay after four years of imprisonment yesterday told of his family’s joy at finally being reunited with their loved one. Bisher al-Rawi returned to British soil late on Friday, four and a half years after being seized in the Gambia and …

Anthony Browne, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown enhanced his image as a prime-minister-in-waiting by making an unannounced one-day visit to British troops in Afghanistan and telling them that they were fighting on one of the “front lines against international terrorism”. The Chancellor made his first trip to the country accompanied …