Background and Profiles
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Trojan mine clearance fact file
How do UK troops clear a safe path through areas littered with Taliban roadside bombs?
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Operation Moshtarak
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Foreign forces in Afghanistan
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Who are the Taliban?
BBC News looks at the history of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Afghanistan - Country profile
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Hamid Karzai
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Features & Analysis
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In our own words
Poignant and personal - the thoughts of UK troops serving on the front line.
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Office and front line
Amanda Wheeler swapped day job for Afghan tour
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War wounds
How horrors of warfare have led to medical progress
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Life with the Lancers
Follow four British soldiers as they come under fire in Afghanistan
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Tough battle
Did the British know what to expect in Helmand?
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First in
Unseen footage shows how UK troops were vulnerable to Taliban
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When to leave?
PM's comments hint at debate, says BBC's Nick Robinson
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Key facts and figures
The conflict in numbers
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Coalition 'sleepwalking'
Any lessons from Afghanistan?
Afghanistan: What can be achieved?
Army town's Afghanistan burden
Cameron's first Afghan visit as PM