Resurgent Taliban threaten US exit strategy for Afghanistan
A New York Times article at the weekend suggests the Afghan police and army, whose efficiency was used to justify the US and British exit, are not up to the job.
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British and US forces formally conclude their military involvement in Afghanistan – but after so much bloodshed, is this really ‘mission accomplished’?
A New York Times article at the weekend suggests the Afghan police and army, whose efficiency was used to justify the US and British exit, are not up to the job.
Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidates have disputed the election results since the first round of voting in April. The potential for political implosion is very real now.
This is precisely the kind of act guaranteed to wipe the gloss of the weekend euphoria as US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Kabul to broker a deal between arch-rivals.
We were supposed to leave Afghanistan with some kind of credible military forces to stop all this from happening. That does not look very credible.
The Afghanistan Taliban claims responsibility for setting fire to 200 oil tankers – which it says were delivering fuel to Nato forces – near Kabul.
Afghanistan accuses the US of going behind President Hamid Karzai’s back in striking a deal to free a US soldier in exchange for five Taliban militants, and says international law has been breached.
As Afghanistan goes to the polls, Channel 4 News Chief Correspndent Alex Thomson meets the suicide belt friskers, the purple-ink fingers and the proud dad taking his son to vote.
A photographer has been killed and a reporter wounded after an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan.
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The Taliban may threaten to wreck Afghanistan’s elections – but only a deal between the insurgents and the Afghan government can offer any resolution to the country’s troubles.
The Afghan conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 450 British military personnel. What kind of country will coalition troops leave behind?
At a gun battle in Kabul Alex Thomson reports how Kabul reacts, if you can you get off the streets regardless of where the attack is happening – you get off them fast.
The Twitter account of Sardar Ahmad, killed in the attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul, is being used to keep memories of the Afghan journalist alive and to update people on the health of his son.
With the crisis in Ukraine sweeping all headlines before it, it is hard to recall that the reason John Kerry ever stepped on to a plane to Europe in recent days was for Afghanistan.