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  • 2 Mar 2010

    Trooper Pete Sheppard, on the front line in Afghanistan, writes: “It’s crazy to think that one minute someone is there and the next he’s not. But this is what we sign up to do and it is our job.”

  • 28 Feb 2010

    Trooper Pete Sheppard writes: “Been a quiet day today, we had a lie in this morning. 0700 start. A few of the troops went out on patrols with the aim of interacting with the local community.

  • 26 Feb 2010

    Trooper Pete Sheppard, stationed in Afghanistan, writes: “We are aware that the insurgents are watching us, which is frustrating as we can’t visually identify them”.

  • 3 Dec 2009

    The Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead to another day of evidence.

  • 16 Nov 2009

    The tale of Yusuf, injured while working as a translator for the British Army in Afghanistan, highlights the gulf in perceptions of responsibility, blogs Nick Paton Walsh

  • 10 Nov 2009

    Was The Sun behind the Brown phone recording?

    It would be unwise for No.10 to pursue the line that the Sun newspaper was behind the recording of Gordon Brown’s phone call to Jacqui Janes, writes Gary Gibbon.

  • 7 Oct 2009

    Dannatt, not champagne, gives Tories the biggest conference hiccup

    The fact that Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, caught off guard by the BBC, misunderstood whose government Dannatt might be joining and dismissed the move as a “gimmick” is the icing on the cake.

  • 21 Aug 2009

    Nothing in my morning today amounts to anything like scientific research. But it does chime with what the scientific experts are now saying.   I’ve been along to a number of Kabul high schools in the past hour or two with some simple questions.   Ana I have received simple answers from the helpful and…

  • 28 Jul 2009

    This is the way the Brit mission ends. No bang; just the whimper of a procedural delay in the Iraqi parliament. After six years, the number of British troops in Iraq has gone from 46,000 to zero. (Well zero-ish, as there are some still based in Baghdad.) A photograph in The Times said it all.

  • 28 Jul 2009

    Do we know why we're in Afghanistan?

    Does anyone out there understand why we are in Afghanistan under arms? Is this the least understood, least cared about conflict involving British troops dying under fire since, well, Northern Ireland? That’s not fair, people did understand Northern Ireland. They didn’t like bombs exploding in British mainland cities.

  • 17 Jul 2009

    Afghanistan: Dannatt eschews the real debate

    General Sir Richard Dannatt, the retiring head of the British army, has done a remarkable thing. He appears, single handedly, to have seen off the opponents in the political classes to the Afghan war.

  • 27 Apr 2009
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    Immigration minister Phil Woolas told Channel 4 News that relaxing the rules for Gurkhas further would mean up to 100,000 people coming to live in the UK. Is he right?

  • 6 Apr 2009

    It’s one of those stories that you have to stop and check yourself about. It fascinates you personally, but you think that you’re probably the only person in the newsroom to care, if not the only person in Britain, maybe. We were in Dubai doing a completely different story (of which more later). But the…

  • 5 Apr 2007

    When 15 Royal Navy crew were captured by Iranian warships in 2007, Channel 4 News exclusively spoke to the country’s security chief Ali Larijani, who accused the UK of “violating” Iranian territory.

  • 15 Aug 2024

    It’s been nine days since Ukrainian troops crossed the Russian border in what’s been called a ‘surprise incursion’ in this latest phase of the war. 

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