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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab joined a meeting with international counterparts about the situation in Afghanistan.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Major General Gordon Messenger, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategic Communications Officer, and Colonel Peter Smith, Assistant Director…
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Prime Minister’s High Representative for Afghan Transition and the Chargé d'Affaires of the UK Mission to Afghanistan held talks with the Taliban.
A group of Afghan judges who are at risk under the Taliban regime have arrived in the UK to start new lives, thanks to assistance by the British Government.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement to the House of Commons on Afghanistan.
UK Human Rights Ambassador Rita French delivered her statement on the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Major General Nick Pope, who has recently taken over as the Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Communications Officer, briefed members of the media yesterday on the situation in Afghanistan.
Simon Manley, UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, delivered the UK statement, calling on the Taliban to honour the amnesty it announced last August for all Afghans.
It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Guardsman Simon Davison from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan on Thursday 3 May 2007.
The Foreign Secretary updated Parliament on the UK's international response to the situation in Afghanistan.
Afghan National Police who are being mentored by Delta Company of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS), have mounted an operation in which insurgent influence was crushed.
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on UNAMA
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Private Chris Gray in Afghanistan on Friday 13 April 2007.
Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke about the dual military and political strands in the strategy to counter the insurgency in Afghanistan, in an interview with Sky News.
Statement by Ambassador James Roscoe, Acting UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council briefing on Afghanistan
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence confirms the death of Captain Sean Dolan of 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Saturday 30 June 2007.
Residents of the area - known to British forces as the ‘Red Wedge’ - are seeing stability return and their lives getting back to normal following…
The UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has welcomed a US review published this week of the strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan which, the review says, has weakened Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
A spokesman for NATO-led forces said that 2011 had been a 'remarkably successful year' in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan and in the development of the Afghan security forces.
As Operation TORAL draws to a close, a small number of UK military personnel will temporarily remain to support the transition to a new phase of UK Government support to Afghanistan.
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