Newsday - Afghanistan withdrawal: Hundreds of interpreters to be allowed to settle in UK - BBC...

Hundreds more people who worked for the British military during the war in Afghanistan, mostly as interpreters, are to be allowed to apply to settle in the UK with their families. More than 3,000 people are expected to be allowed to move, joining 1,300 who have already done so.

The decision comes amid fears for their safety as international troops prepare to leave the country. Some who had previously applied and been rejected, will now be allowed in under the new policy.

Simon Diggins is a retired British Army Colonel who has campaigned for Afghan interpreters to be allowed to relocate to the UK. He's worried that for many this decision will have come too late.

"We know of at least five cases of interpreters... who've been murdered this year and the Taliban has made it very clear that they regard the interpreters as traitors to Afghanistan and worse than that... they saw them as basically immoral for supporting us as well."