Taliban on the run

The Pakistani army is making gains in the Taliban stronghold of Waziristan

Obama has days not weeks to decide on Afghanistan

Why the generals want to fight the Taliban on two fronts – and why they need to start soon

Kabul suicide attack

Taliban militants have killed nine people in a two-hour assault on a UN guesthouse in the Afghan capital Kabul

Afghan elections: behind the fraud and diplomacy

Briefing: Hamid Karzai has agreed to a run-off against Dr Abdullah Abdullah

Do or die as Pakistani army advances on Taliban

If the militants can hold off the army, then a political crisis is inevitable

Silvio Berlusconi denies Italy bribed the Taliban

New allegations come as Newsweek urges Italy to dump ‘playboy-in-chief’

French died after Italian troops paid off Taliban

The slaughter of 10 French soldiers in Afghanistan has been blamed on Italy

Bribing the Taliban: the Italians have form

Robert Fox: They've been accused of doing this before – in Iraq and Somalia

Death in Kabul

Six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians were killed in Kabul by a Taiban lorry bomb on September 17