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Corruption exposed as Afghan bank chief flees
Jon Snow on a little noticed story from Afghanistan, which has major implications and shines a light on the scale of corruption in Kabul.
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David Cameron says the Afghan conflict is entering a “new phase” amid an army investigation into the death of a soldier who was captured by the Taliban and found dead in Helmand province.
Jon Snow on a little noticed story from Afghanistan, which has major implications and shines a light on the scale of corruption in Kabul.
The man in charge of the UN’s al-Qaeda-Taliban Monitoring Team says that creating separate sanction blacklists could make it easier for Afghan leaders to engage the Taliban in the political process.
Ministers say the pace of withdrawing British soldiers from Afghanistan before 2015 will be determined by events on the ground, as US President Barack Obama announces a large-scale pullout of forces.
The former head of Pakistan’s ISI, Hamid Gul, tells Channel 4 News that he is “100 per cent sure” a Taliban attack on a major naval air base in Karachi was an “American operation”.
The Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for a major assault on the headquarters of the naval air force in Karachi that has so far killed at least thirteen officials and injured 14 others.
Five British soldiers were shot by a renegade Afghan policeman as a bloody local vendetta played itself out, a coroner’s court has heard.
Eight american NATO troops and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan military officer opened fire inside an office at Kabul airport.
In a serious setback for security in Afghanistan, hundreds of prisoners have escaped from a prison in the southern Kandahar province through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents.
Nine people are reported to have died during protests in Kandahar over the burning of a Koran in the US. It follows an attack on a UN office in Mazar-i-Sharif in which seven UN workers were killed.
Up to 20 UN staff are killed in Afghanistan, after protests over the burning of a Koran in the US turned violent. The pastor who organised the burning tells Channel 4 News he’s not responsible.
After a period of relative quiet over winter months, U.S. General David Petraeus tells Channel 4 News he expects a ‘spring offensive’ from the Taliban but insists withdrawal plans are on track.
The Libyan conflict has exposed the gaping hole left by Government cuts to Britain’s sea-based air power, former senior Navy officers tell Channel 4 News.
Exclusive: Hamid Karzai says the military surge in Afghanistan could threaten the chances of political stability. Interviewed by Jon Snow, Karzai admits he’s emotional – but not erratic.
Eight people – three of them foreigners – are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a supermarket in the Afghan capital, Kabul, just yards from the British Embassy.