Corruption exposed as Afghan bank chief flees
Jon Snow on a little noticed story from Afghanistan, which has major implications and shines a light on the scale of corruption in Kabul.
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Jon Snow on a little noticed story from Afghanistan, which has major implications and shines a light on the scale of corruption in Kabul.
The man in charge of the UN’s al-Qaeda-Taliban Monitoring Team says that creating separate sanction blacklists could make it easier for Afghan leaders to engage the Taliban in the political process.
The US is in contact with the Taliban about a possible peace deal in Afghanistan according to Hamid Karzai. Earlier this year the Afghan President told Channel 4 News “contacts had been made”.
After at least 12 protesters are killed in a demonstration in northern Afghanistan, President Karzai condemns last night’s NATO raid in which four people died and which provoked today’s protest.
World leaders, lawmakers and academics have reacted to the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed. Western leaders have welcomed the news, while groups such as Hamas have condemned the operation.
Eight american NATO troops and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan military officer opened fire inside an office at Kabul airport.
In a serious setback for security in Afghanistan, hundreds of prisoners have escaped from a prison in the southern Kandahar province through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents.
Cerebral and popular, General David Petraeus is being touted as a presidential candidate for 2016, but is America prepared for a leader who has these qualities and a military CV, asks Jon Snow.
After a period of relative quiet over winter months, U.S. General David Petraeus tells Channel 4 News he expects a ‘spring offensive’ from the Taliban but insists withdrawal plans are on track.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi launches a major air and ground assault on protesters and rebels who have taken control of towns and cities in the east. Lindsey Hilsum reports from the frontline.
Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who was President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died at the age of 69. Sarah Smith looks back at the life of the “foreign policy giant”.
The latest secret US diplomatic cables to be released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks have revealed harsh criticism of the British forces in Afghanistan.
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”.
Wikileaks diplomatic cable disclosures suggest that Iran has been on a global mission to acquire weapons including Russian-made parts from a Chinese company, Channel 4 News can reveal.
A senior aide to the Afghan President blames British intelligence officers for bringing an imposter to take part in peace negotiations under the mistaken impression he was a Taliban commander.