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Inside the Taliban gun battle house
Najibullah is good enough to show us around the house that is now a total ruin and he gives the sense of man unsure whom he is more angry with – Taliban or government?
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Pakistan’s Taliban claims responsibility for the attack on Karachi airport, telling Channel 4 News it is in response to the killing of its chief in a drone attack last year.
The Taliban publishes footage showing the release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl. The 28-year-old was handed to US special forces in exchange for five Afghan detainees.
Afghanistan accuses the US of going behind President Hamid Karzai’s back in striking a deal to free a US soldier in exchange for five Taliban militants, and says international law has been breached.
Photographs emerge on the Live Leak website apparently showing at least one British soldier posing next to a dead Taliban fighter. Some viewers may find images in this video distressing.
Afghan singer Aryana Fayeed and Richard Barrett, former head of counter-terrorism for MI6, discuss whether the Taliban will be able to regain power in Afghanistan.
Najibullah is good enough to show us around the house that is now a total ruin and he gives the sense of man unsure whom he is more angry with – Taliban or government?
At least three are reported dead as gun battle with insurgents rages ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential elections.
A bomb sniffer dog captured by the Taliban is from a British army unit, it is being claimed. Named as “Colonel” the animal has been pictured on “jihadist” website Al-Emara.
A Labour MEP candidate was among 21 killed in Kabul, Afghanistan when gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a restaurant popular with expats in the city centre.
Amid reports that Khan Said will replace Hakimullah Mehsud as leader of the Pakistan Taliban, Taliban sources tell Channel 4 News discussions are still underway, signalling disagreement at the top.
Channel 4 News understands that a US drone strike in Pakistan has killed two senior members of the Taliban. There are also strong indications that Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is among the dead.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, is released from prison in Pakistan as a part of a deal aimed at securing peace in the region.
Afghanistan’s Taliban detonate two suicide car bombs in an attack on the US consulate in Herat and engage security forces in a gun battle.
Taliban fighters armed with bombs and grenades attack a Pakistani jail to free 250 prisoners, including 30 “top militants” and six inmates who were on death row.
“Nobody’s going to believe a word the Taliban say until they stop bombing the schools and killing the teachers,” Gordon Brown tells Channel 4 News in reaction to a Taliban letter to Malala Yousafzai.