Alex Thomson
Withdrawing from Afghanistan: what next?
As news emerges of more Nato deaths in Afghanistan, Alex Thomson asks what happens when foreign troops leave the country.
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Alex Thomson
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Afghanistan: a race to the exit
It is a war that should be winding down, instead today’s incident takes the British death toll ever closer to 450. What does this mean for withdrawal?
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Alex Thomson
Boston bombings: western governments reaping what they sow?
Post Boston, the issue is primarily political in the case of these violent, angry, disaffected young men. But we’ve been here before – and instead of politics we offer war.
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British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan insider attack
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan by a member of the Afghan National Army, bringing the total of British soldiers killed by the Afghans they serve alongside on the current tour to six.
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Afghanistan war: is the media losing interest? (Video)
Film-maker Vaughan Smith spends three weeks with the First Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in Helmand, Afghanistan, who are fighting a war that seems to have been forgotten.
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Afghanistan: 2012’s forgotten war?
Lives and limbs are still being lost in Afghanistan but is the British media losing interest? Vaughan Smith spent three weeks embedded with soldiers in Geresk where the fighting is as fierce as ever.
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MoD negligent over vehicle deaths, families claim
Exclusive: In the first of our Lost War films, three families whose sons were killed in Afghanistan tell Channel 4 News their loved ones died because their vehicles were not up to scratch.
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British soldier dies in Afghanistan after ‘insider attack’
A British soldier from the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, has died after an “insider attack” at his base in Afghanistan.
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Anti-tank mines stolen from freight train
Police in north west England appeal for information as a consignment of powerful anti-tank mines is stolen from a goods train after it stops at Warrington.
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Afghan soldier deaths ‘not friendly fire’
An initial review into the deaths of a Royal Marine and an army medic in Afghanistan reveals the killings were not caused by “friendly fire”, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Royal Marine and British soldier killed in Afghanistan
A Royal Marine and a soldier have died from injuries sustained while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said.
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Britain to ‘double number of drones in Afghanistan’
Britain boosts to 10 the number of drone aircraft flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan, as the foreign secretary faces questions over UK support for US drones in Pakistan.
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Five Royal Marines charged with murder
Five Royal Marines are charged with murder in relation to an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Royal Marines arrested ‘on suspicion of murder’
Royal Military Police arrest seven Royal Marines on suspicion of murder. The arrests relate to an incident last year in Afghanistan.
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British soldier gives birth in Afghanistan
A British servicewoman has given birth whilst serving in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.
