A huge bomb in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic district has killed at least 90 and injured more than 400. Most were civilians.
Alex Thomson
The Taliban may threaten to wreck Afghanistan’s elections – but only a deal between the insurgents and the Afghan government can offer any resolution to the country’s troubles.
Alex Thomson
Najibullah is good enough to show us around the house that is now a total ruin and he gives the sense of man unsure whom he is more angry with – Taliban or government?
Alex Thomson
The Afghan conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 450 British military personnel. What kind of country will coalition troops leave behind?
Alex Thomson
At a gun battle in Kabul Alex Thomson reports how Kabul reacts, if you can you get off the streets regardless of where the attack is happening – you get off them fast.
The mere thought of my little girl getting hurt makes me wince. So listening to a young Kabul woman in Kabul describe how her father stabbed her 16 times because she refused to marry the man he’d chosen is an unsettling experience
Alex Thomson
Tuesday’s attack on the US airbase Bagram, which killed four American troops, conforms to what Taliban spokesmen said would happen, announcing their ‘spring offensive’ back in April.
Alex Thomson
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.
Alex Thomson
It was back in the biting cold of a Kabul January that Guncha Gul and his family first came to the notice of Channel 4 News viewers, writes Alex Thomson.
Alex Thomson
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says the coordinated attacks on Kabul could be an ominous sign of things to come.
Alex Thomson
Everyday at cock-crow, in the biting sub-zero of a terrible winter even by Kabuli standards, Najib sets out to pick up recyclable plastic from the streets and herd the family’s sheep to forage on the rubbish heaps at the same time.
Alex Thomson
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson video blogs on training for a marathon in Kabul.
Alex Thomson
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the relentless snow hitting Kabul and why Britain’s idea of winter is “frankly hilarious”.
Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson posts a video diary on how Kabul’s most vulnerable are suffering brutally in the unusually harsh winter.
Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson reports some surprising results in a bit of truly unscientific opinion polling of the people of Kabul.