The uncomfortable facts about Saudi Arabia
Leaks about US concerns over Saudi Arabia’s terror links a year before arms deals between the two nations is as worrying as it is confusing, says Jon Snow.
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As war rages in Afghanistan Captain Doug Beattie writes from the frontline for Channel 4 News on how efforts to provide basic necessities for the local population affect the success of the insurgency.
The number of drone strikes in Pakistan, believed to be led by the CIA, has doubled under the Obama administration in 2010 – leading to hundreds of deaths. Channel 4 News maps a secret war.
Why have drones or unmanned warplanes become so important to America’s war in Afghanistan? Surely it is the realisation that the Obama troop surge there cannot box the Taliban into a corner.
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.
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.
The deaths of two British al-Qaeda members in a drone attack in Pakistan have focused attention on US deployment of unmanned airplanes in north Waziristan.
Two British nationals, reportedly fighting with al-Qaeda militants, have been killed in the tribal region of Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Sources in both the Pakistan Taliban and the Pakistan military have told Channel 4 News that the two men were killed in a CIA drone strike five days ago.
Journalist Vaughan Smith tells Channel 4 News why he offered a bail address to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after his second appearance in court.
Death is a full stop – it’s the fate of the wounded that raises questions. Capt Doug Beattie writes exclusively from the frontline on the dilemma of helping those once intent on taking his life.
The WikiLeaks supporters behind attacks on various websites – including Mastercard and Visa, have sent footage to Channel 4 News of a cyber strike being carried out.
Leaks about US concerns over Saudi Arabia’s terror links a year before arms deals between the two nations is as worrying as it is confusing, says Jon Snow.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is refused bail after appearing in a London court over sex crime allegations originating in Sweden. His lawyer tells Channel 4 News that “darker forces” are at work.
The DA Notice committee has told Channel 4 News that Wikileaks’ publication of a list of foreign infrastructures “critical” to US national security is not as damaging as it may have first seemed.
Counter-terror thinktanks call for inquiry into public library stocks after a Channel 4 News investigation finds hundreds of books written by radical Islamist preachers, writes Johnny McDevitt.
US troops involved in the failed attempt to rescue the British aid worker Linda Norgrove from Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan are confirmed as having killed her with a grenade thrown at her captors.