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  • 19 Nov 2009

    Kabul was the emptiest of cities this morning. The only way to move around – given the universal ban on private vehicles that has successfully staved off the predictable attack by the Taliban – was on foot. The traffic that usually blocks the city vanished. We found ourselves learning that routes between places we normally…

  • 17 Nov 2009

    Are Afghan women’s rights beyond the UK’s reach?

    Gary Gibbon blogs on David Miliband’s speech on Afghanistan and wonders if it will improve his standing with a certain American Secretary of State…

  • 16 Nov 2009

    The tale of Yusuf, injured while working as a translator for the British Army in Afghanistan, highlights the gulf in perceptions of responsibility, blogs Nick Paton Walsh

  • 5 Nov 2009

    Poll shows the public are losing confidence in the Afghanistan war

    Gordon Brown has cleared his diary to give a speech on Afghanistan, as a new poll shows opposition to the war has risen sharply in the past fortnight.

  • 4 Nov 2009

    Five dead is the biggest single loss of British life in one incident in Afghanistan since 2006 when 14 died in the Nimrod aircraft crash. And it comes at a time when British public opinion is increasingly sceptical of the war. But the way in which it happened is even more damaging. The five British…

  • 28 Oct 2009

    Channel 4 News reporter Lindsey Hilsum examines the shrinking number of options available to the US in Afghanistan.

  • 19 Oct 2009

    The longer the US administration takes making up its mind about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the more comparisons are made with Vietnam.

  • 6 Oct 2009

    The sad truth about the deaths of 8 US soldiers in Afghanistan this weekend is that they were not even meant to be in the remote military base that was attacked. They should have moved out months ago. Their commanders had been planning to pull out since Dec 2008 but various problems – from a…

  • 22 Sep 2009

    General McChrystal says more troops are needed in Afghanistan. But the lesson of Iraq is that you have to win over the local population.

  • 10 Sep 2009

    Stephen Farrell and the lethal pursuit of truth

    “We’re entitled to the protection of the First Amendment – no more.” So read my angry overnight text from an old New York Times friend with whom I survived reporting the civil war in El Salvador in the early nineteen eighties. We can be scandalised that the journalistic activities of Stephen Farrell, working in Afghanistan…

  • 26 Aug 2009

    Putting low voter turnout claims to our man in Afghanistan

    The UK ambassador in Kabul gave journalists in London a teleconference briefing today about the Afghan elections.

  • 21 Aug 2009

    Nothing in my morning today amounts to anything like scientific research. But it does chime with what the scientific experts are now saying.   I’ve been along to a number of Kabul high schools in the past hour or two with some simple questions.   Ana I have received simple answers from the helpful and…

  • 21 Aug 2009

    It was a simple and unoriginal idea. Stick your finger in the indelible ink, then see how easily it washes off.   Across Afghanistan, the plan was to prevent repeat voting by putting this ink on the right index finger of each person brave enough to vote.   There were drawbacks; the Taliban had threatened…

  • 19 Aug 2009

    Alex Thomson on the main rivals to Hamid Karzai in the Afghan elections: Ramazan Bashardost, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani.

  • 19 Aug 2009

    Nima Elbagir guest blogs from Kandahar hospital, Afghanistan. When the Obama administrations’ then nominee for the top job in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal faced the Senate Armed Services committee in early June his message was unequivocal – civilian casualties were the major operational issue. “This is a critical point. It may be the critical point.…

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