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Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
Alex Thomson
As the US begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan and sets up an official Taliban office in Qatar, Alex Thomson looks at what 2012 could hold for the country and its long-running conflict.
A member of the Royal Air Force, who was injured in the same explosion which killed a Royal Marine in Afghanistan, has died of his injuries.
The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK’s record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.
The situation in Afghanistan is serious but improving 10 years after the invasion, Britain’s special representative to the country tells Channel 4 News.
The senior commander of the Haqqani network in Afghanistan has been captured by Nato-led forces, according to the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).
Aid agencies say Pakistan’s perceived links to terrorist groups is undermining their ability to raise funds internationally to tackle a second successive year of devastating floods.
After Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination in Afghanistan, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben de Pear says “there were few bigger targets for the Taliban”.
As the Taliban leader issues a statement to mark the end of Ramadan, Channel 4 News’ Head of Foreign News Ben De Pear examines whether it may be finally possible to talk with the Taliban.
The death toll for British service personnel in Afghanistan climbs to 379 as the MoD reports the death of another soldier in Helmand Province.
Four more Nato troops have been killed by insurgents in Afghanistan, as the coalition force works to determine if the Taliban was responsible for the Chinook crash that claimed the lives of 38.
A Nato helicopter has crashed fighting insurgents in east Afghanistan, killing 31 US troops and seven Afghan soldiers in the worst single incident for foreign troops in Afghanistan.
The mayor of the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar has been killed by a suicide bomber – the latest in a string of attacks on influential officials in the country.
The Taliban denies reports that its leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has been killed as British troops hand over control of a key city in Afghanistan to local forces.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces the drawdown of a further 500 troops by the end of 2012, as Britain winds down its combat role in Afghanistan.