Afghanistan: special report

Senior Taliban leaders tell Channel 4 News that talks with the United States have started again in Qatar – intransigence on all sides is blamed for the failure of talks earlier this year.

As Channel 4 News reveals the number of children whose parents have died fighting for the UK in Afghanistan and Iraq, Carl Dinnen meets grieving families trying to help others in the same situation.

Two British service personnel are shot dead by an Afghan man wearing military uniform, bringing the number of NATO troops shot by Afghan forces to 16 this year alone.

The soldier accused of killing civilians in southern Afghanistan in a shooting rampage is to be charged with 17 counts of murder. But the Taliban have vowed to avenge the deaths.

A US soldier could plead insanity if he is charged with the murders of 16 Afghan villagers last weekend, his lawyer tells Channel 4 News.

With fears of reprisal attacks and a mass walk-out of Kabul’s parliament, Channel 4 News examines what lies ahead for the US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians – and for the whole mission.

As a US soldier is held in custody after shooting dead Afghan civilians, a spokesman for Nato-led forces tells Channel 4 News the attack is “simply not understandable” and a “step back”.

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.

With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country’s continued presence in the country.

Two American officers were shot inside Afghanistan’s interior ministry after a fifth day of protests over the burning of a Koran at a Nato base.

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?

The leaked report of Afghan detainees’ interrogation statements says more about US disenchantment with Pakistan than about its spy agency’s supposed grip on the Taliban, analysts tell Channel 4 News.

Alex Thomson meets Zebolon Simontov, Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew – tolerated by the Taliban and sustained by a faith that has survived Communism and the mujaheddin.

A video published on the internet, showing what appear to be US forces in Afghanistan urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters, is to be investigated by the Marine Corps.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.