Hope on the streets of Kabul
Alex Thomson reports some surprising results in a bit of truly unscientific opinion polling of the people of Kabul.
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With the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan the number of UK troops killed since the conflict began has passed 400. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson assesses a decade at war.
Putting faces to numbers: as the Ministry of Defence announces Britain’s 400th military death since the war in Afghanistan began, Channel 4 News maps the casualties in this interactive graph.
After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?
Putting faces to numbers: as the number of British military deaths in Afghanistan passes 400, Channel 4 News maps the casualties in this interactive graph.
Six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, after an armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in Afghanistan.
Alex Thomson reports some surprising results in a bit of truly unscientific opinion polling of the people of Kabul.
As US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announces an early switch from a combat to a support role, Alex Thomson reports from Kabul on what will become of Afghanistan once the Americans leave?
As the US begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan and sets up an official Taliban office in Qatar, Alex Thomson looks at what 2012 could hold for the country and its long-running conflict.
A member of the Royal Air Force, who was injured in the same explosion which killed a Royal Marine in Afghanistan, has died of his injuries.
The Queen joined Prime Minister David Cameron, military chiefs and watching spectators at London’s Cenotaph today as she led the country in honouring its war dead.
A sewing kit, sleeping bag and don’t forget your passport. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on his essential kit as he returns to Japan’s tsunami zone eight months after the disaster.
The family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan have told Channel 4 News that an MoD decision to claw back overpaid money from him is ‘disgusting’.
Nearly 10 years after British and American forces began the war in Afghanistan, Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore returns to Kabul to find “freedom and fear living side by side”.
Four more Nato troops have been killed by insurgents in Afghanistan, as the coalition force works to determine if the Taliban was responsible for the Chinook crash that claimed the lives of 38.
A Nato helicopter has crashed fighting insurgents in east Afghanistan, killing 31 US troops and seven Afghan soldiers in the worst single incident for foreign troops in Afghanistan.