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Soldiers mark Armistice Day in Afghanistan

11.11.09
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Mandelson blasts Sun’s ‘bad taste’

11.11.09
Lord Mandelson deepened the row over a British soldier killed in Afghanistan today with an attack on the Sun’s 'bad taste and crude politicking'... more

Rogue Afghan machineguns troops as they take tea break

04.11.09
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Modest increase smacks of muddling through

14.10.09
Gordon Brown is drawing a line in the sand, or rather the dust of Helmand, with the long expected announcement that he is to increase the number of British troops in Afghanistan - for a limited period... more

Brown speeds up troops' exit with switch to training Afghan soldiers

04.09.09
Gordon Brown has accelerated his exit strategy from the Afghanistan war... more

Afghanistan: Soldiers fire 'road rage' rocket at Nato

01.09.09
Afghan troops fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a Nato convoy in an apparent "road rage" incident on Kabul's busiest highway, it has been revealed... more

10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’

26.08.09
As few as 150 people may have voted in the Afghanistan presidential poll in an area of the country seized from the Taliban by British forces at a heavy loss... more

Both sides in Afghanistan election claim clear victory

21.08.09
Two frontrunners in the Afghanistan election both claimed victory amid mounting evidence that the poll was marred by intimidation and fraud... more

WORLD: Afghans defy the Taliban rockets to vote for ‘peace and security’

20.08.09
Hundreds of people defied Taliban threats and rocket attacks to vote in Afghanistan’s most dangerous province... more

The Taliban won't stop us from voting, say defiant Afghanis

19.08.09
Hordes of Taliban gunman are fighting just outside the city, but people in Lashkar Gah are defying insurgent threats by promising to vote in tomorrow's election... more

1,000 troops killed or wounded in Afghan conflict

17.08.09
Almost 1,000 British troops have been killed or wounded in action since the start of the Afghan conflict eight years ago... more

Bodies of four British troops are flown home

13.08.09
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WORLD: Karzai 'spending his way to victory in Afghanistan'

13.08.09
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai is facing claims he is trying to 'buy' himself a second term in the country's elections next week... more

Three Paras killed in Taliban ambush

07.08.09
Three soldiers from the Parachute Regiment were killed and a fourth was critically injured in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan... more

Casualties show that Brown is fighting the wrong war in the wrong way

30.07.09
The true cost of the bloody campaign in Helmand is now being revealed, though slowly, with the publication of the casualty figures at the beginning of this month... more

Bodies of three soldiers brought home from Afghanistan

30.07.09
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David Miliband urges talks with moderate Taliban

27.07.09
Foreign Secretary David Miliband stepped up pressure on the Afghan government to undermine the insurgency targeting British troops by holding talks with elements of the Taliban... more

Afghan dispatch: Locals think British are powerful, clever and cunning. If the enemy are stronger, it must be part of the plan

13.07.09
People in Helmand believe in the wild conspiracy that British troops have been helping the Taliban... more

We are winning against the Taliban, insists Army chief

09.07.09
British Army chief insists his troops are winning the battle against the Taliban despite growing questions over the military campaign... more

Mourners line the streets for fallen officer’s return

06.07.09
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Colonel H son 'to replace Afghan hero Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe'

03.07.09
Highest ranking British officer killed in action in three decades could be replaced by the son of the last most senior soldier to die in war... more

Two more soldiers killed in Afghanistan

02.07.09
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Tributes to two dead in Helmand

29.05.09
Tributes were paid to two British servicemen who died within hours of each other after being wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan... more

Marine dies after Afghanistan blast

28.05.09
Royal Marine dies in hospital from wounds he suffered in a blast in southern Afghanistan... more

British soldier killed in Afghanistan

15.05.09
A British soldier has died in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said... more

British soldier dies in Afghan ambush

17.02.09
A British soldier died after coming under fire on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said... more

Miliband: If US asks, we will send Afghan troops

28.11.08
Britain is willing to send more troops to Afghanistan to join an American-led surge, Foreign Secretary David Miliband indicated... more

Cameron's pledge to troops on Afghan visit

02.09.08
David Cameron staged a surprise trip to Afghanistan as he unveiled plans to give more family leave to British troops fighting overseas... more

Briton shot dead by Taliban

29.07.08
A British soldier who died from a single gunshot wound has become the 113th UK serviceman to be killed in Afghanistan... more

Army woman dies in secret SAS operation

18.06.08
A woman was among four British soldiers killed by a roadside bomb during a secret mission in Afghanistan... more

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