Top Stories - Afghanistan
Uncertainty about how and when the NATO-lead ISAF mission to Afghanistan will end is set to grow...
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British troops have seen their last intake of Afghan Warriors graduate from the Regional Basic...
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Downing Street has announced that British troops will step back from their lead combat role in...
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Specialist Female Engagement Teams have been deploying with infantry battlegroups in Afghanistan,...
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A leaked NATO report suggests the Taliban is being backed by Pakistan and plans to retake...
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Pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border today...
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A soldier with a skill for DJ-ing has taken to the airwaves to present a radio show in Afghanistan...
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More than 350 tonnes of illegal drugs have been seized in Afghanistan since April 2009.
Foreign...
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British Forces News has been given exclusive frontline access to witness a dramatic change in...
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The head of the Army has warned future operations may mean accepting greater risks because soldiers...
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Staff from 208 Field Hospital have been welcomed back home, after three months running Camp Bastion...
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US President Barack Obama has made an unusual admission, confirming that unmanned drones regularly...
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The Ministry of Defence has named the soldier killed in Afghanistan on Friday.
Lance Corporal...
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai thanked Britain today for being his country's "steadfast...
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An RAF squadron, which ran, cycled and rowed 56,000 miles in the heat of combat in Afghanistan, has...
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The French President Nicholas Sarkozy has agreed to allow his forces to resume training Afghan...
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War photographer Lalage Snow has shot a documentary featuring the women of the Afghan National Army...
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It has been revealed that a teenage British Soldier was deployed to Afghanistan despite being under...
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A British soldier who died at a base in southern Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of...
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Soldiers fighting in Afghanistan are more likely to become alcoholics, according to the Ministry of...
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The Ministry of Defence has defended the cost of 'morale-boosting' trips to troops on the frontline...
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A soldier from 200 Signal Squadron has died in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has announced....
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Members of the Armed Forces in Afghanistan could be fined £100 if they fail to submit their tax...
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An investigation is underway after a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that has killed six NATO...
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Four French soldiers have been shot dead by a rogue Afghan soldier.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said...
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Two explosive experts are heading to Afghanistan next week as part of the Royal Navy's high-threat...
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At least 7 civilians have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at the entrance to a NATO base in...
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Armoured vehicles can be the difference between life or death for service personnel on the roads in...
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Pakistan has reportedly pledged to re-open the supply route to Afghanistan, used by NATO to send...
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The veteran journalist and broadcaster Sandy Gall, 84, has published his latest book "War against...
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US marines and Afghan forces have built on the achievements of British troops in Musa Qala in the...
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A Military Police investigation is underway after allegations of child abuse against two British...
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Military defence chiefs are meeting in Brussels.
The two-day conference will examine NATO’s...
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A three-day inquest into the death of an RAF gunner killed in an explosion in the desert in...
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Hundreds of people lined the streets of Darlington this morning for the funeral of Private John...
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Three servicemen have been cleared of cutting off the fingers of dead Taliban fighters in...
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In a speech to defence think-tank the Royal United Services Institute, NATO’s senior civilian...
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The US Marine Corps in Afghanistan is pushing out the security bubble around Musa Qala, as it...
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Hundreds of Afghan schoolchildren have met RAF top guns at an Open Day held by the Afghan Air Force...
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French military medics have saved the life of a ten-year-old Afghan girl who was shot in the head...
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