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  • 20 Jul 2010

    Sanitising war

    I was cycling through the southern part of Hyde Park yesterday when I noticed freshly laid flowers at the side of the carriageway.

  • 19 Jul 2010

    Poor driving in India?

    News this morning that Mercedes Benz is to launch an aggressive sales drive in India to ‘capture the luxury sports car’ end of the automobile market.

  • 18 Jul 2010

    Lindsey Hilsum writes on her visit to Bamiyan and why it’s both the most developed and under developed province in Afghanistan.

  • 18 Jul 2010

    Nick Paton Walsh comes under attack by RPGs in Afghanistan and explains why it’s like Brownian Motion.

  • 12 Jul 2010

    How does it feel to walk alone towards an unexploded bomb? Channel 4 News is given unique access to one of Britain’s IED units in Afghanistan and reveals a terrifying view of the loneliest job.

  • 29 Jun 2010

    Afghanistan: a $33bn turning point?

    Eight long years and Congress this week is considering a further subvention of $33bn dollars to the Afghan war effort, blogs Jon Snow.

  • 24 Jun 2010

    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…

  • 21 Jun 2010

    Tragic though the 300th British dead soldier/marine is, it is the Afghan people for whom we are fighting we are told, and the Afghan people who remain resolutely ignored, writes Alex Thomson

  • 21 Jun 2010

    Writing for Channel 4 News as the UK death toll reached 300, former British commander Colonel Richard Kemp said the UK could not afford to leave the country until its objectives are achieved.

  • 31 May 2010

    Former Helmand commander Andrew Mackay and Operation Snakebite author Stephen Grey set out 10 key points for future strategy for British forces in Afghanistan.

  • 16 May 2010

    A Channel 4 News investigation reveals how a number of US and Nato units asked for help from Afghan militias previously blamed for assassinations and civilian deaths.

  • 5 Apr 2010

    In his final blog from the frontline, Tpr Pete Sheppard on how the anticipation of returning home is shattered by the death of a fellow soldier just days before he was due to leave Afghanistan.

  • 12 Mar 2010

    Alex Thomson gets unique access to a British Army bomb disposal units to find out the reality of defusing improvised explosive devices, the Taliban insurgents’ weapon of choice in Afghanistan.

  • 12 Mar 2010

    Trooper Pete Sheppard, from the Brigade Reconnaissance Force, writes from Afghanistan as his colleagues chase down a group of Taliban fighters.

  • 11 Mar 2010

    What really strikes you in Afghanistan is the sheer, astonishing ambition of what Nato is attempting here, writes Alex Thomson.

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