Alex Thomson
Caring in Kabul – Channel 4 News viewers help family
It was back in the biting cold of a Kabul January that Guncha Gul and his family first came to the notice of Channel 4 News viewers, writes Alex Thomson.
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Dozens killed in Kabul bomb attack
Dozens of people have been killed and nearly sixty injured in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Islamic State militants say they were responsible for the bombs which targetted a Shia cultural organisation and the Afghan Voice news agency. The government says it is the latest in a series of attacks…
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Scores killed in Kabul car bombing
A huge bomb in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic district has killed at least 90 and injured more than 400. Most were civilians.
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IS militants disguised as doctors kill 30 in Kabul
Suicide bombers and gunmen disguised as doctors have attacked a military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing more than 30 patients and staff and injuring dozens more.
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Afghanistan bomb blasts: three attacks in Kabul in 24 hours
At least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a series of bombs went off in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday.
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Kabul car bomb: three killed after EU vehicle rammed
A suicide car bomber rammed a European Union vehicle near the main airport in Kabul, killing at least two Afghans and a British national in the latest attack in the city, officials say.
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Farkhunda Malikzada murder: ‘The day Kabul changed’
The trial of four men suspected of murdering a woman falsely accused of burning the Koran, has shown the suffering still faced by Afghan women, Nelufar Hedayat writes.
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British and Afghan worker killed in embassy attack in Kabul
A British national and one Afghan working for the embassy were killed during an attack on a vehicle in Kabul, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says.
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Burka-clad Taliban storm Kabul election office
At least three are reported dead as gun battle with insurgents rages ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential elections.
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Taliban attack on Kabul threatens Afghan talks
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.
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Nip, tuck Kabul
Afghanistan is not usually associated with cosmetic surgery and freedom of choice, but that is exactly what filmmakers found in a small Kabul clinic. Leslie Knott and Clementine Malpas report.
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Taliban attacks in Kabul ‘a message to Nato’
As the Taliban attacks various targets in Kabul, including the British Embassy, its spokesman tells Channel 4 News the coordinated assault is “a message to Nato”.
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Kabul, where childhood – and children – are cheap
Everyday at cock-crow, in the biting sub-zero of a terrible winter even by Kabuli standards, Najib sets out to pick up recyclable plastic from the streets and herd the family’s sheep to forage on the rubbish heaps at the same time.
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Video blog: Training for a marathon in Kabul
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson video blogs on training for a marathon in Kabul.
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Video blog: lunchtime Kabul style
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson video blogs on his staple diet in Afghanistan.
