Afghanistan: Why ‘green on blue’ killings are on the rise
Why are rising numbers of Afghan soldiers turning on their American army mentors? Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on ‘green on blue’ killings.
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The United States’ top commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation as part of the scandal engulfing the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus.
Why are rising numbers of Afghan soldiers turning on their American army mentors? Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on ‘green on blue’ killings.
A car bomb explodes outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul hours after US President Barack Obama visits the Afghan capital.
The soldier accused of killing civilians in southern Afghanistan in a shooting rampage is to be charged with 17 counts of murder. But the Taliban have vowed to avenge the deaths.
Taliban leaders pledge revenge after the fatal shooting of 16 civilians, including nine children, by an American soldier in Kandahar.
As a US soldier is held in custody after shooting dead Afghan civilians, a spokesman for Nato-led forces tells Channel 4 News the attack is “simply not understandable” and a “step back”.
Whether non-Muslims wish to comprehend this or not, the Koran is not “just a book” as one Twitter follower told me this morning. It is, literally, perceived by the faithful to be the word of God and in few countries more than Afghanistan.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from the streets of Kabul on Afghanistan’s spiralling drug addiction – and the difficulty of tackling it in the middle of a war.
As US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announces an early switch from a combat to a support role, Alex Thomson reports from Kabul on what will become of Afghanistan once the Americans leave?
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on his unexpected encounter with a Taliban “big beast”.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins Afghanistan’s top female boxers as they fight their way to the London 2012 Olympics.
Will the Taliban renounce “international terrorism” as the US demands? Will they get their prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay? And will they recognise the Karzai regime in Kabul at all? Once you see movement on this you can start taking matters seriously.
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.
More than fifty people have died in Kabul in the worst sectarian violence since the war in Afghanistan began. An analyst tells Channel 4 News he believes it was “stirred by elements from Pakistan.”
As the Taliban attack high profile targets in Kabul, the UK’s former special representative to Afghanistan tells Channel 4 News it reveals the “folly of a military-only approach.”