Despite warnings of a severe and imminent threat of a terror attack on crowds outside Kabul airport, a coordinated suicide bomb and gun assault was still able to kill at least 60 people when it came, including at least a dozen US marines. But the group behind the deadly attack wasn’t the Taliban but ISIS-K, an affiliate of the Islamic State based in Afghanistan who see the Taliban as strategic rivals. Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines have been tracking the group for years and in this Q&A by colleagues in the US, explain who the group is and the threat it poses both inside and outside Afghanistan.

In the UK of the 1950s and 1960s, women facing abuse in their own homes were trapped. There were almost no domestic violence services, no specialist laws, no counselling and few housing options. There were no refuges at all. As one survivor told Gill Margaret Hague – the author of our latest Insights long read: “You couldn’t leave your husband. It wasn’t done.”

Then, the first women’s refuges began to open up in the 1970s and things slowly began to change. Hague’s story charts the evolution of these refuges and how they saved the lives of many women. The projects and political actions they began have grown into an international movement which campaigns for justice and supports all survivors and victims of domestic violence.

In health matters, Ronapreve, a new lab-designed COVID-19 treatment that can block infection has just been authorised for use, but its cost means it may be reserved only for the most vulnerable.

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