As Peter Hitchens explains: We must pull our troops out of Afghanistan. It is no good waiting for the Americans to lift us off this hook. They will leave, too, in the end, but they do not know it yet. It takes quite a nerve for us to claim we are fighting terror and promoting civilisation in Afghanistan, when we have been beaten hollow by the IRA in Ulster, when we cannot prevent deaths like that ...

The legal blood alcohol limit should be cut to zero for drivers aged 17 to 20, England's chief medical officer says.

Sending more UK troops to Afghanistan could save lives, Tory MP Patrick Mercer says after Gordon Brown visits the country.

A REPORT commissioned by the Scottish Government has found a minimum set price for alcohol would save billions from the cost of dealing with the nation's alcohol problem.

European governments are at pains to insist that the collapse of the ruling Dutch coalition and the anticipated decision to pull 2,000 troops out of Afghanistan in August would not change their strategy and support for the Nato military operation

The government restates a target of removing UK troops from Afghanistan by 2014 and announces a major boost in aid spending for the country.

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column We must pull our troops out of Afghanistan. It is no good waiting for the Americans to lift us off this hook. They will leave, too, in the end, but they do...

The shortage of troops for operations in the Armed Forces has forced the military to turn sailors into truck drivers to fill the gaps in the front line in Afghanistan.

The Government is preparing to send hundreds more troops to join the Nato mission in Afghanistan.

The one thing democratic governments can't suffer is an endless war of attrition in a faraway land. Any conflict in Afghanistan, that involved regular infantry on the ground, was always going to be one. So what now? Do we continue to support the deeply flawed and fragile Afghani project, or do we pull our troops out?