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Withdrawing from Afghanistan: what next?
As news emerges of more Nato deaths in Afghanistan, Alex Thomson asks what happens when foreign troops leave the country.
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Barack and David - two exchange students who haven't hit it off
The controversy over David Cameron's EU referendum pledge has highlighted the lack of chemistry between Britain's prime minister and the US president.
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More than a thousand servicemen and women attended a service of remembrance in York Minster for nine members of the 4th Mechanised Brigade who have died in Afghanistan in just six months.
It is a war that should be winding down, instead today's incident takes the British death toll ever closer to 450. What does this mean for withdrawal?
Since the beginning of operations in October 2001 444 British forces personnel have died serving in Afghanistan.
Twelve people - including three British soldiers - are killed in the first IED-related incident of 2013, as the Ministry of Defence warns that the situation is still "risky and dangerous".
Drones are being flown in Afghanistan by UK-based pilots for the first time. The Ministry of Defence say the vehicles save lives - but protesters say they are a tool to fight wars "behind our backs".
A Nato air strike kills at least ten children in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, with a further six women believed to have been injured, according to local politicians.
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'Murder' or 'killings' - why we need to take care with the words of war
Murder and killings: Alex Thomson argues that the mainstream media is "taking sides" in its description of conflicts around the world.
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Inside Afghanistan's 'appalling' refugee camps
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
Unreported World reveals a hidden result of the conflict in Afghanistan: a huge rise in the number of children addicted to opium and heroin
Watch the previewFrom the inhospitable northern mountain hideways of al Qaeda to the bitter fighting across the poppy fields of southern Helmand
War in Afghanistan: in-depth coverage.
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