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Afghanistan timeline

August 2007

  • Afghan opium breaks production records, UN says

    Helmand province in Afghanistan is poised to become the world's biggest drug supplier, cultivating more drugs than entire countries such as Colombia, a UN report said today.

  • 'US friendly fire' kills British soldiers in Afghanistan

    Three British soldiers have been killed in an apparent friendly fire incident involving US aircraft in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.

    • UK's Afghan mission at turning point, says Browne

    • Afghanistan becomes main focus for UK

    • Rumsfeld denies cover-up over 'war hero'

July 2007

  • Nato changes tactics to avoid Afghan civilian deaths

    Nato intends to use smaller bombs in Afghanistan in an effort to avoid civilian casualties as it adapts to new Taliban tactics, the alliance said today.

  • Last king of Afghanistan dies

    The former king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.

  • Poppy eradication risking lives, warn MPs

    The lives of British soldiers in Afghanistan are being put at risk because failure to develop a coherent strategy for eradicating the country's opium poppies has led to the Taliban forming an alliance with heroin traders, a highly critical parliamentary report warns today.

June 2007

  • 'Up to 80 civilians dead' after US air strikes in Afghanistan

  • Record opium crop in southern Afghanistan

  • UK mission in Afghanistan to last decades, says ambassador

  • Report compares Afghan civilian death tolls

May 2007

  • Mullah Dadullah’s body laid out for reporters to see after he was killed in fighting.

    Taliban's top military commander killed during fighting

    Taliban insurgents suffered a grave loss when their top military commander, Mullah Dadullah, was killed in fighting in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, it was claimed yesterday.

April 2007

  • Royal Marines in attack on Taliban's 'heart of darkness'

    British marines were part of an international operation to clear insurgents from Sangin in Afghanistan, it emerged last night.

March 2007

  • Rocket attack kills two British soldiers in Afghanistan

    · Casualties bring UK death toll to 50 since 2002
    · Street protests after US forces fire on civilians

February 2007

  • Britain switches tactics to undermine the Taliban

    Britain has launched a "reconciliation" drive to undermine support for the Taliban after Whitehall strategists concluded that a decisive military victory in Afghanistan cannot be won, the Guardian has learned.

  • Bush deploys 3,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to take on Taliban

    George Bush said yesterday he had ordered 3,200 extra US troops to Afghanistan in expectation of a spring offensive against a resurgent Taliban and he urged European allies to make a similar effort.

  • General calls for more troops

    British commander in Afghanistan reveals how close hard-pressed forces came to defeat in critical five-day firefight last year.

January 2007

  • 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in 2006, report says

  • Bush to pump another $8bn into Afghanistan

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