Taliban

...led to calls for troops to come home. However, in a speech to the Lord Mayor s banquet, Brown also pointed out a series of recent successes due to British troops bitter struggle with the Taliban. Since January 2008 seven of the top dozen...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Al-Qaeda, British troops, Afghanistan, London, The Telegraph, NATO, and Kabul

The moves coincide with plunging public support for the military campaign and a round of fresh attacks from senior military figures, who yesterday even accused Brown of handing the Taliban a key tactical advantage against British forces.

In this article: Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Kevan Jones, Harriet Harman, Downing Street, Anxiety, and Yvette Cooper

Unless Gordon Brown rekindles public support for the "noble war" against the Taliban, the morale of the armed forces will be sapped and the Government will find it impossible to sustain an increasingly controversial deployment.

In this article: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Fort Hood, Texas, and US

Gordon Brown vows to fight Taliban Gordon Brown vows to fight Taliban in Afghanistan but public support falters Prime minister vows not to 'walk away' from fight with Taliban as poll shows 35% believe troops should come home The coffin of...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Kim Howells, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, British troops, UK, Liberal Democrats, John Denham, and Channel Four

Brown says Taliban shot UK soldiers Gordon Brown addresses MPs on Afghanistan shootings The Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to carry out the fatal shootings of five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has said.

In this article: Afghan National Police, Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, UK, Afghan army, and Royal Military Police

...turned into a killing field. Gordon Brown must convince voters that Britain's safer by taking the fight to al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies instead of sitting back and waiting for terrorists to bomb our cities. The suicide attacks of 7 July...

In this article: Al-Qaeda, London, Afghanistan, Suicide, British soldier, Gordon Brown, Pakistan, and Britain

Military manual stresses power of gold LONDON: British soldiers should buy off potential Taliban recruits in Afghanistan with cash, a new army field manual says. Details of the manual emerged after the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown,...

In this article: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Kabul, Gordon Brown, London, Britain, and US

Gordon Brown: we will never accept calls to appease Taliban Gordon Brown will claim today that more has been done to disable al-Qaida this year than in any year since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. His remarks are designed to...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Al-qaida, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, UK, David Miliband, Pakistan, Europe, and British troops

UK's Afghan strategy debated "Bags of gold are the new weapons of choice in Afghanistan," according to the Times, which says UK soldiers are being told to buy off potential Taliban recruits. The revelation comes after Gordon Brown gave a...

In this article: UK, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Detainee, The Sun, Daily Express, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, and Edward Woodward