Afghanistan: special report

Exclusive: In the first of our Lost War films, three families whose sons were killed in Afghanistan tell Channel 4 News their loved ones died because their vehicles were not up to scratch.

Pakistan agrees to free several Afghan Taliban prisoners, according to officials from both countries.

A British soldier from the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, has died after an “insider attack” at his base in Afghanistan.

A Royal Marine and a soldier have died from injuries sustained while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said.

A British servicewoman has given birth whilst serving in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.

Afghan militants have claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan which has killed 12 people, saying it was retaliation for the US-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

Commanders are struggling to defend Britain’s main base in Afghanistan. That was the blunt admission of the defence secretary – as he paid tribute to the latest two soldiers to lose their lives.

Four US soldiers are killed in an attack at a remote checkpoint by suspected Afghan police in southern Zabul province, following the deaths of two British soldiers in similar circumstances.

A Taliban spokesman tells Channel 4 News that an attack on Nato’s base at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan which killed two US marines was aimed at Prince Harry, who is stationed there.

Senior Taliban commanders have vowed to kidnap Prince Harry at any cost – or kill him.

Seventeen civilians, including women, are killed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, according to a local official.

Body parts and tissue of soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been kept by the Ministry of Defence without the permission of their families, officials have admitted.

Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers who risked their lives serving in the British Army tell Channel 4 News they want the government to review a new law which leaves them subject to imminent deportation.

Prime Minister David Cameron describes the rescue of a British aid worker, and her three colleagues, kidnapped in Afghanistan as an “extraordinarily brave, breathtaking” operation.

A car bomb explodes outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul hours after US President Barack Obama visits the Afghan capital.