Britain set up a secret scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans to the UK after a soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban,

As the mood fouls over immigration policy, British officials bicker over the decision to allow thousands of Afghans who had not qualified for asylum

Thousands of Afghans are poised to sue the Ministry of Defence after details of a mass data leak finally came to light this week. Almost 20,000 names of people who had applied to seek shelter from the Taliban in Britain had their names leaked by a MoD official.

According to a BBC report, the personal details of 19,000 Afghans who had applied to move to the United Kingdom following the 2021 Taliban takeover were leaked in February 2022. The government learned of the data breach in August 2023 and created a secret resettlement scheme for those affected,

Britain has secretly offered asylum to nearly 24,000 Afghan soldiers and their families caught up in the most serious data breach in history, it can be revealed.

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping deportation protections from thousands of Afghans in the country.

More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade.

The pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems, a senior U.N. official warned Tuesday, with tens of thousands of people crossing the border daily exhausted and traumatized,