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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.
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Nick Paton Walsh comes under attack by RPGs in Afghanistan and explains why it’s like Brownian Motion.
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.
Eight long years and Congress this week is considering a further subvention of $33bn dollars to the Afghan war effort, blogs Jon Snow.
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…
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
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.
Former Helmand commander Andrew Mackay and Operation Snakebite author Stephen Grey set out 10 key points for future strategy for British forces in Afghanistan.
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.
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.
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.
Trooper Pete Sheppard, from the Brigade Reconnaissance Force, writes from Afghanistan as his colleagues chase down a group of Taliban fighters.
What really strikes you in Afghanistan is the sheer, astonishing ambition of what Nato is attempting here, writes Alex Thomson.
“I have the impression that we are the first TV team to be allowed out with the people who deal with the IED roadside bombs, the key insurgent weapon in Helmand,” writes Alex Thomson.
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.
Alex Thomson on the problems of meetings in Afghanistan and talks between the district governor and the British army.