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Are we any closer to understanding the Taliban?
Alex Thomson outlines the three strands of the Taliban and asks who have we really been fighting and who are we going to talk to?
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.
The Pakistani schoolgirl tells an audience in Birmingham that “one book, one pen, one child, one teacher” can change the world, as she opens the Library of Birmingham.
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.
Imran Khan tells Jon Snow the biggest current threat to Pakistan is terrorism and that radicalism can be curbed by Pakistan removing itself from the war in Afghanistan.
Channel 4 News sees a copy of a letter sent to Malala Yousafzai from a senior Taliban commander berating her “smear campaign” against them – but expressing some remorse about the attack.
At least 15 people, including three children, are killed in a bomb attack on a security convoy as it passed through a market area in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The prime minister visits troops on the front line in Afghanistan as a senior British commander claimed talks with the Taliban should have been attempted a decade ago.
Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, who has spoken with members of the Taliban ahead of peace negotiations, tells Channel 4 News that compromise is possible in the “PR dance” with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Alex Thomson outlines the three strands of the Taliban and asks who have we really been fighting and who are we going to talk to?
The Taliban attacks the CIA’s headquarters in the Afghan capital of Kabul, alongside key presidential buildings, in a brazen assault that threatens to derail peace talks.
Gunmen storm a hotel in a remote part of northern Pakistan, killing nine foreign tourists and a Pakistani guide near the foot of one of the world’s tallest mountains, police confirm.
The war of words over the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar intensifies, with the Afghan government suggesting that the office should not only be closed, but “annihilated”. Jonathan Miller reports.
How the Taliban’s flag has turned ‘peace talks in Doha’ from diplomatic triumph to an egg-on-your-face moment for Barack Obama.