Improvised explosive device (IED)

Former US Army interpreter Hekmatullah Wahidi learns this week if he can appeal his deportation from the UK. But if he returns to his native Afghanistan, he is “certain” the Taliban will kill him.

Six British army soldiers who died in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in March 2012 in Afghanistan were “unlawfully killed whilst on active service”, a coroner rules.

The US wants Pakistan to do more in its fight against the Taliban in Waziristan. But the Pakistan soldiers maimed in the war on terror might argue they have already given enough. Chris Woods reports.

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.

MoD tells 700 residents near Olympic site they will be safer with missiles on top of their east London building.

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.

The six British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan after their armoured warrior was hit by an explosion are named by the Ministry of Defence. Four are aged 20 or under.

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

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson asks if military inquests ever give families answers when – in the case of bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid – some evidence is “never really explored”.

Exclusive: The army’s top bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid may have been suffering “cumulative tiredness” when he was killed by an IED, according to restricted documents seen by Channel 4 News.

The last day of bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid’s life was fraught with tension and danger. Channel 4 News maps his final hours as he took on Afghanistan’s enemy IEDs, often with his bare hands.

As new evidence emerges about bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid’s death, Sean Rayment, author of Bomb Hunters, writes about his time with the team in “one of the most dangerous places on earth”.

The inquest into the death of bomb disposal specialist Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid in Afghanistan has found he was unlawfully killed.

Channel 4 News examines the deadly threat of IED attacks for British troops in Afghanistan as Jane Deith reports from the inquest into the death of Olaf Schmid, a bomb disposal victim in 2009.

Channel 4 News examines the deadly threat of IED attacks for British troops in Afghanistan as Jane Deith reports from the inquest into the death of Olaf Schmid, a bomb disposal victim in 2009.