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Are we any closer to understanding the Taliban?
Alex Thomson outlines the three strands of the Taliban and asks who have we really been fighting and who are we going to talk to?
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Channel 4 News sees a copy of a letter sent to Malala Yousafzai from a senior Taliban commander berating her “smear campaign” against them – but expressing some remorse about the attack.
At least 15 people, including three children, are killed in a bomb attack on a security convoy as it passed through a market area in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, who has spoken with members of the Taliban ahead of peace negotiations, tells Channel 4 News that compromise is possible in the “PR dance” with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Alex Thomson outlines the three strands of the Taliban and asks who have we really been fighting and who are we going to talk to?
The Taliban attacks the CIA’s headquarters in the Afghan capital of Kabul, alongside key presidential buildings, in a brazen assault that threatens to derail peace talks.
The war of words over the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar intensifies, with the Afghan government suggesting that the office should not only be closed, but “annihilated”. Jonathan Miller reports.
How the Taliban’s flag has turned ‘peace talks in Doha’ from diplomatic triumph to an egg-on-your-face moment for Barack Obama.
Diplomatic efforts to end Afghanistan’s 12 year war stall over Afghan government anger at the opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state.
Tuesday’s attack on the US airbase Bagram, which killed four American troops, conforms to what Taliban spokesmen said would happen, announcing their ‘spring offensive’ back in April.
The United States will meet with the Taliban to begin talks aimed at brokering peace after 12 years of fighting in Afghanistan, officials say.
Pakistan Taliban number two, Wali-ur-Rehman, has been killed in a US drone strike, say security officials.
A leading Islamist terror group says it was not behind the marathon bombs, as America asks: did the bombers come from home or abroad?
As Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf prepares to return from exile on Sunday, he insists he is “not scared” of the Taliban’s threat to kill him.
David Cameron calls for the Taliban to enter talks on the future of Afghanistan, ahead of the withdrawal of British and US troops over the next year.
The tabloids are dominated by headlines about Prince Harry killing the Taliban. But what did he actually say? And what about the “not necessarily politically correct” posters in Camp Bastion?