UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband defends the military mission in Afghanistan after eight troops die in 24 hours.

ALLIED troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any "vacuum", the Foreign Secretary said today.

David Miliband, the former foreign secretary has written an open letter to General David Petraeus, the new commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan setting out plans to accelerate moves towards a peace deal in Afghanistan:

At an unprecedented appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington yesterday, the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, warned that sending more troops to Afghanistan was all well and good but that a fresh political strategy had to be put in place also.

David Miliband the British foreign secretary has said that Allied troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any ''vacuum'' but said the aim is not to fight 'to the death'.

David Miliband has turned down the possibility of a new career as "Europe's Foreign Secretary" - the post formally called EU high representative. A friend of the foreign secretary has told me that "David sees his future in British politics". Mr Miliband's decision follows lobbying from colleagues who have urged him not to desert the Labour Party and who regard him as Gordon Brown's ...

Foreign Secretary David Miliband welcomes US plans to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

Foreign secretary rejects reports 2,000 extra UK personnel to be sent and says allies must bear greater burden

Foreign Secretary David Miliband will UK troops in Basra during a surprise visit to Iraq, the British Embassy reveals.

Foreign secretary says investigation will be set up after UK combat troops leave country in July David Miliband gave a strong hint today that the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war will hear evidence in private when it is set up later this year. Speaking in a debate in the Commons, the foreign secretary said that the inquiry would be set up after British combat troops leave Iraq at the end of ...