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‘A long tough winter for Kabulis’
Alex Thomson posts a video diary on how Kabul’s most vulnerable are suffering brutally in the unusually harsh winter.
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Alex Thomson posts a video diary on how Kabul’s most vulnerable are suffering brutally in the unusually harsh winter.
Alex Thomson reports some surprising results in a bit of truly unscientific opinion polling of the people of Kabul.
A history of conflict and a decade of nation-building means that getting in and out of Kabul hotels – each of which is a sizeable target – is a real accomplishment.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins Afghanistan’s top female boxers as they fight their way to the London 2012 Olympics.
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.”
Admiral Mike Mullen claims the Haqqani militant group blamed for an attack on the US embassy in Kabul is a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service.
Security forces kill the remaining six insurgents in the longest sustained Taliban assault on the Afghan capital in a decade.
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.”
Nearly 10 years after British and American forces began the war in Afghanistan, Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore returns to Kabul to find “freedom and fear living side by side”.
Nine people are reported to have died after suicide bombers attacked offices housing the British Council and the UN in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. All the assailants involved have been killed.
A Taliban attack on a landmark hotel in Kabul has left nine people dead. An expert tells Channel 4 News the Taliban are staging “spectacular” attacks like this to show their continuing power.
The fact that the Kabul conference is taking place is undoubtedly a step forward, blogs Lindsey Hilsum. But the Afghan government will soon be expected to organise mult-million dollar development projects and reintegrate the Taliban.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Again the Taliban or insurgency have left their mark on the Afghan capital. Its city centre shopping centre and Safi Hotel left a shattered wreck. In the gooey mud of Kabul’s semi-paved roads and non-paved pavements, piles of glass mingle into the freezing, oozy mud.
Alex Thomson reflects on the attacks in Kabul and why the Afghan capital city has become such a target.
The latest suicide bombings in Kabul highlight that the city is no longer safe, writes Nick Paton Walsh.