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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gave a statement on the departure of British nationals on a flight from Kabul.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Members of No 5 RAF Force Protection Wing, working alongside the US Marine Corps (USMC), have spoken about quickly regaining control of Camp Bastion Airfield following an insurgent attack on Friday 14 September, killing 14 and capturing one of the...
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Lance Corporal Roberts is a Section Second-in-Command in 4 Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (3 MERCIAN). He is currently…
Yesterday’s arrival is hoped to be the first of many of LGBT Afghans who are able to start new lives in the UK.
Prime Minister David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai gave a press conference together during the PM's trip to Afghanistan.
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.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gave the closing remarks in the House of Commons debate, outlining the UK government's priorities in Afghanistan.
Residents of the area - known to British forces as the ‘Red Wedge’ - are seeing stability return and their lives getting back to normal following…
But, unlike troops, the military animals in Helmand province are blissfully unaware of what is being hunted or the daily risk they face. All…
RAF Tornado crews have recently launched strikes against Taliban bombers.
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.
The PM will call on G20 leaders today to do more to support girls’ education around the world.
Trained to sniff out IEDs and lead patrols to safety, Hobo has been in Helmand for two months, saving the lives of countless soldiers and marines…
Minister Alistair Burt discusses the UK’s position on efforts to reconcile and reintegrate members of the Taliban on the terms set out by the Afghan Government.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond calls for Taliban to end violence against civilians.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
The village of Loy Manday had been littered with IEDs for over four years, driving locals away and rendering it a ghost town. There had been…
British troops and Afghan police have taken advantage of a tip-off from local people to raid a bomb factory in what was once a Taliban stronghold.
Two members of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force (C-IED TF) have spent two full days making safe an IED factory found by British soldiers in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province.
What has been described as the most significant operation conducted yet by the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Helmand has now concluded, driving a wedge through the heart of Taliban operations in Gereshk.
Foreign Secretary discussed the latest opinion poll of Afghans across Afghanistan on Radio 4's World at One programme.
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