Nato leaders are meeting in Chicago to endorse plans to hand over command of combat operations in Afghanistan by the middle of next year - as President Obama declares the war is effectively over.

The new French president Francois Hollande will meet Barack Obama in the White House, ahead of the G-8 summit at Camp David on Thursday: is a new Franco-American relationship being forged?

Five men who smuggled 10,000 kilograms of explosives from Pakistan into Afghanistan are captured by security forces who suspect they were plotting a massive attack in Kabul.

As the Taliban attacks various targets in Kabul, including the British Embassy, its spokesman tells Channel 4 News the coordinated assault is "a message to Nato".

The soldier accused of killing civilians in southern Afghanistan in a shooting rampage is to be charged with 17 counts of murder. But the Taliban have vowed to avenge the deaths.

With fears of reprisal attacks and a mass walk-out of Kabul's parliament, Channel 4 News examines what lies ahead for the US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians - and for the whole mission.

Taliban leaders pledge revenge after the fatal shooting of 16 civilians, including nine children, by an American soldier in Kandahar.

After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?