First published by Channel 4 News / 16 May 2010 Author Stephen Grey writes about how “warlords” control the Afghan […]
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Afghanistan: Lost in Translation
ROUGH CUT: Afghanistan – Lost in Translation (WEB EXCLUSIVE) US troops operating in Afghanistan face huge risks on a daily […]
Taliban’s supreme leader signals willingness to talk peace
By Stephen Grey in Kandahar. The supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has indicated that he and his […]
Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, threatens to block Nato offensive
First published in The Sunday Times, April 11,2010 Stephen Grey in Kandahar The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast […]
Just Cause: Unjust Means
Straying from reporting to comment, I gave a talk recently at King’s College, London, on the question: Is the Afghanistan […]
It’s going to be quite a hunting season
First published in the Sunday Times on March 28, 2010. by Stephen Grey in the Arghandab. BY the yellow light […]
Task Force Black: a review
Published in the Sunday Times,February 28, 2010 Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret […]
Capturing the Taliban: Afghan covert war
First published on Channel 4 News website, 16 February 2010 The arrest of a Taliban’s commander illustrates Nato’s covert war […]
Mystery over ‘closure’ of defence ministry’s ‘brains trust’
IT most famously predicted the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, and had a team of multi-lingual analysts dedicated to […]
Rupert Hamer: a good man down
I just stepped outside before dawn this morning. It is a drizzling London– warm rain on melting snow. It’s in […]