In autumn 1943 SAS Lieutenant Alastair McGregor and his seven men were dropped deep behind enemy lines, on Winston Churchill's personal orders. Their mission: to bring back the thousands of escaped ...

Khost (Afghanistan) (AFP) – A man convicted of murder was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, a punishment a UN rights monitor called "inhumane". The ...

The Taliban have carried out a huge public execution in a stadium packed with 80,000 people - forcing a 13-year-old to put his family's killer to death. Afghanistan’s ruling authorities carried out a ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

Since the launch of the Crossword in 1942, The Times has captivated solvers by providing engaging word and logic games. In 2014, we introduced the Mini Crossword — followed by Spelling Bee, Letter ...