Afghanistan: special report

Days after reports of tentative negotiations between the US and the Taliban, Channel 4 News learns of a probable deal between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to fight under one banner, for one aim.

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.

A leaked classified memo suggests 16,500 army personnel, including as many as 2,500 wounded soldiers, could be made redundant by April 2015. The MoD has rejected the information as “incorrect”.

A US army sergeant is convicted by court martial of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers from their corpses as ringleader of a rogue platoon in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.

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’.

Wootton Bassett is the first town in a hundred years to be awarded the “Royal” accolade in recognition of its role in honouring the UK’s military personnel.

Ten years after the war in Afghanistan began, the US and NATO still don’t have enough knowledge to reach their goals, says former US army general Stanley McChrystal.

The situation in Afghanistan is serious but improving 10 years after the invasion, Britain’s special representative to the country tells Channel 4 News.

Security forces kill the remaining six insurgents in the longest sustained Taliban assault on the Afghan capital in a decade.

As the Taliban attack high profile targets in Kabul, the UK’s former special representative to Afghanistan tells Channel 4 News it reveals the “folly of a military-only approach.”

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”.

As the Taliban leader issues a statement to mark the end of Ramadan, Channel 4 News’ Head of Foreign News Ben De Pear examines whether it may be finally possible to talk with the Taliban.

Nine people are reported to have died after suicide bombers attacked offices housing the British Council and the UN in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. All the assailants involved have been killed.

US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with an apparently untreatable and incurable lung disease are being dismissed as out of shape because tests appear normal, writes Sarah Jones.

The death toll for British service personnel in Afghanistan climbs to 379 as the MoD reports the death of another soldier in Helmand Province.