Syria's inconvenient truth
Jon Snow blogs on Syria’s inconvenient truth and asks what can be done to stop the country’s ongoing bloodshed.
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After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?
Putting faces to numbers: as the number of British military deaths in Afghanistan passes 400, Channel 4 News maps the casualties in this interactive graph.
With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country’s continued presence in the country.
Six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, after an armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in Afghanistan.
Jon Snow blogs on Syria’s inconvenient truth and asks what can be done to stop the country’s ongoing bloodshed.
Heloise Goodley was a high-flying City banker when she decided to quit business lunches for the battlefield. Writing for Channel 4 News she describes her new “way of life”.
Two American officers were shot inside Afghanistan’s interior ministry after a fifth day of protests over the burning of a Koran at a Nato base.
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.
The US embassy in Kabul is in lockdown after a man was killed during the second day of violent protests against the burning of Korans at Nato’s main base in Afghanistan.
Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Pakistani counterpart are expected to discuss Afghanistan, terrorism and US drone strikes during talks in London.
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?
Two reports made public in the space of a few weeks add up to a damning and corroborative indictment of western policy in Afghanistan – to say nothing of Pakistan’s policy here writes Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
The leaked report of Afghan detainees’ interrogation statements says more about US disenchantment with Pakistan than about its spy agency’s supposed grip on the Taliban, analysts tell Channel 4 News.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins Afghanistan’s top female boxers as they fight their way to the London 2012 Olympics.