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:

David Miliband the Foreign Secretary has insisted that troops fighting in Afghanistan are engaged in a battle for "the future of Britain" after eight troops were killed in 24 hours.

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has challenged Nato allies to do "the maximum possible" to support efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan, as 25 out of 43 countries co

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.

Foreign secretary David Miliband is among Nato foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today over the ongoing crisis of diplomatic relations with Russia.

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'.

Gordon Brown has arrived at the NATO summit with an offer of up to 1000 extra troops to go to Afghanistan on a temporary mission to ensure the August elections there go smoothly. This peace keeping role would be carried out in the South. Officials say the numbers sent would be “mid-late hundreds”. Britain already has over 8000 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO force – the...

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

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

Why the difference between ISAF figures and UN figures? A letter to me from Foreign Secretary David Miliband says that NATO and US troops were responsible for 237 civilian casualties in 2008. The insurgents are blamed for 973 deaths. The...