UN lifts sanctions against Afghan warlord
United Nations Security Council on Friday lifted sanctions including a travel ban and arms embargo against the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, previously branded as "a global terrorist" and accused of war crimes. The move follows a peace deal between Hekmatyar's insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami and the Afghan government in September last year that granted him legal immunity from past offences.