Search results for ‘kandahar’
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Taliban attacks Nato Afghan bases
Foreign and Afghan troops have repelled Taliban attacks on two bases in east Afghanistan. The assaults are nothing new, writes Alex Thomson.
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Taliban view: Nato troops ‘cannot win’
Channel 4 News meets with a senior Taliban commander who says “this war cannot be won” by foreign troops as Alex Thomson examines rare footage of life on the frontline with insurgent fighters.
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Human bait: tracking the Taliban with the US Army
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb blogs from southern Afghanistan where he is currently embedded with the US Army. You know that game at the fair where you try to shoot down ducks with an air rifle to get a prize? Well just lately I’ve been feeling a bit like one of those ducks. I’ve…
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WikiLeaks files raise questions over civilian casualties
Channel 4 News analyses WikiLeaks US military “secret” reports which appear to show notable differences between UN and US civilian casualty figures.
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WikiLeaks war files: Afghanistan’s hidden war
War as we have never been allowed to see it: WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange speaks to Channel 4 News about his decision to publish 90,000 US military files – the biggest leak of its kind in history.
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Highway 1, Afghanistan: world's biggest moving target
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, where troops, warlords and hired guns run the gauntlet daily, writes Channel 4 News’ Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with US troops – whose hands are tied under ‘courageous restraint’.
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Afghanistan’s biggest moving target
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, writes Channel 4 News’s Nick Paton Walsh – embedded with US troops.
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Under fire from RPG's in Afghanistan
Nick Paton Walsh comes under attack by RPGs in Afghanistan and explains why it’s like Brownian Motion.
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Afghan embed: the jargon of war
Nick Paton Walsh is embedded with the US army in Afghanistan. There comes a point, somewhere between not being disgusted by a portaloo’s contents and thinking that there might be water and nutrients in a Gatorade, when you run the danger of starting to speak Arm-ese. I’ve been embedded for 10 days now – only…
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Afghan embed: surrounded by Taliban territory
It’s taken six days to travel no more than 50 kilometres, but after one helicopter ride (20 mins, after a 72 hour wait), two truck journeys (30 and 20 minutes each) and three Powerpoint presentations (“Are you still listening? Do you understand that we have a plan?”), we are finally somewhere. COP Lakhokhel used to…
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Afghan embed: waiting in a Taliban heartland
Every night so far, it’s happened at least twice. A distant thud you might just catch, followed by a screech of sirens. A rocket attack. This should come as no surprise, given how this is Kandahar airfield, from where Nato’s make or break operation to retake the Taliban’s heartland will launch. But the audacity and…
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Afghanistan: will trouble at the top slow progress?
It was a pretty harsh move, designed perhaps to cure the impression that Obama is a soft-touch, indecisive, slow to move. Even Robert Gates, the defence secretary, counselled against it. But in the end McChrystal had to go. The logic is there: how can allies and Afghans listen to US policy if the face of…
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Afghanistan and the McChrystal row: Obama's political anvil
For President Obama, Afghanistan began as a choice of what was morally or practically right and is fast becoming a case of what is politically expedient. A longer and messier war is not what any Democrat incumbent would choose to get into, but at the same time, no US president could get out of Kabul…
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New role for British troops in Afghanistan
Britain’s mission in Afghanistan will change, perhaps radically, in the coming months. That’s pretty clear from the smoke signals emerging from NATO and the new Cameron government.
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Air of familiarity about Brits moving on from Helmand
Expect Britain to fairly soon slowly sidestep away from Helmand into Kandahar, but it will be no comparative picnic writes Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
