Search results for ‘kandahar’
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Afghanistan: rest and recuperation from the frontline
R&R: part of a package needed to keep soldiers sane. Captain Doug Beattie MC writes for Channel 4 News on his short respite from fighting on the frontline in Afghanistan.
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CIA Pakistan drone strikes: what the experts say
What is behind the surge in CIA drone strikes in Pakistan over the last two years? Channel 4 News asked a panel US defence analysts and commentators for their views.
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Barack Obama: Al-Qaeda is hunkered down
The US surge strategy in Afghanistan has halted the Taliban’s momentum and is weakening al-Qaeda in and around the Pakistan border areas, President Obama has said.
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Civilians treated in military hospitals in Afghanistan
How does the military treat civilian casualties in Afghanistan? Channel 4 News hears from Colonel Christopher Castle, ISAF Joint Command Medical Advisor.
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Afghanistan: huge rise in war wounded civilians
The number of war wounded civilians in southern Afghanistan has increased dramatically this year following the military troop surge, an exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has found.
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Doctors working in the line of fire in Afghanistan
Medical professionals working in Afghan hospitals tell Channel 4 News of the highs and lows of providing frontline healthcare in a country ravaged by war.
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WikiLeaks: Afghanistan political tensions exposed
Afghan President Hamid Karzai insists the leaked documents will not damage international ties as military analyst Professor Michael Clarke tells Channel 4 News that WikiLeaks has “lost the plot”.
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Lt Mark Evison death, a grieving mother’s story
Lt Mark Evison’s mother Margaret Evison explains to Channel 4 News that she wants Mark’s story to help British soldiers receive the vital equipment they need to fight in the Afghanistan war.
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Afghanistan war: Rupert Thorneloe tribute to Mark Evison
Exclusive: Channel 4 News publishes a letter written to Lt Evison’s mother by his commanding officer, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, the highest ranking soldier to die in the Afghanistan war.
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Afghanistan war diaries reveal Evison’s kit warnings
Just 28 days before Lt Mark Evison died he wrote a diary in which he vented frustrations and concerns over equipment shortages in the Afghanistan War. In his own words, this is Mark’s story.
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Afghanistan war: Evison and medics linked by blood
Exclusive: Lt Mark Evison underwent hours of emergency surgery at Camp Bastion on 9 May 2009, receiving 42 pints of blood. Written by his nurses, Channel 4 News publishes the Bastion hospital diaries.
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Afghanistan war video: see how my son died
Exclusive: the mother of British officer Mark Evison killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan tells Channel 4 News she wants the world to see the video showing the moments leading up to her son’s death.
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Can RAF’s high-tech systems survive the cuts?
The RAF has been showing off its high-tech capabilities. But, asks Tim Lambon, can they survive the inevitable cuts of the strategic defence review?
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Still struggling to meet the Afghanistan challenge
Nearly a decade after NATO soldiers arrived in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, Alex Thomson analyses how the security challenge remains tough.
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Afghan election: voters battle Taliban bomb threats
As Afghans brave the ballot boxes for the election amid Taliban rocket strikes, Channel 4 News’s Nick Paton Walsh says expectations are low in the wake of last year’s vote-rigging debacle.