Half of the major terrorist plots threatening Britain emerge from Afghanistan and Pakistan nearly 11 years after UK troops joined a US-led coalition to oust the Taliban, David Cameron said today.

Revised deadline from new French regime does not mean 'rush for exits', says Secretary General

A group of suicide bombers armed with explosive-laden vests, automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades stormed a government compound today in western Afghanistan, killing at least seven people, officials said.

Controversy has erupted over the publication later this week of an anthology of Taliban poetry designed to “shed light on who these people actually are”.

An Afghan detainee who says he was subjected to torture after being handed over to the Afghan authorities following capture by British forces today won permission to challenge the legality of his transfer.

Even Churchill told the Empire that Britain would 'not stand by idly and see Poland trampled'

Latest fatal attack brings the number of UK military killed in the Afghan conflict to 414

A gunman killed a top member of the Afghan peace council in Kabul, authorities said today.

A deal to release five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay has broken down

The mortar rounds came in from the hills, spraying shrapnel and debris as they sank into the red earth; long bursts of machinegun and Kalashnikov fire followed, all aimed at the helicopter landing strip. The attack just missed its target – the helicopter in which the local governor was leaving after a public meeting to celebrate the defeat and expulsion of the Taliban from this area.

At a meeting to celebrate the Taliban's 'retreat', what could possibly go wrong?

Two of the most powerful American officials in Afghanistan have insisted that the Taliban are in retreat with its leadership divided, contradicting claims by senior figures in Washington that the insurgency has actually grown stronger since Barack Obama authorised the surge of forces two years ago.

A British publisher has defended its decision to release a collection of poems penned by members of the Taliban.

A bombing in a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border killed 16 people today, a day after the US released a letter written by Osama bin Laden that criticised similar attacks for killing too many civilians.