John D McHugh in Afghanistan
The photojournalist and film-maker John D McHugh spent months embedded with US troops in Afghanistan in 2008-09. As the situation in the country reaches a critical stage for the British army, this series provides an authoritative guide to the background to the present conflict
War in Afghanistan: hall of mirrors
The Afghan people find themselves stuck in the middle, between Taliban threats and US marines who don't know who to trust. It's a frustrating hall of mirrors for the American forces tasked with winning hearts and minds
Barack Obama's war: Afghanistan's failing army
As Barack Obama announces more US troops to train the Afghanistan army, John D McHugh reports on how US soldiers view their Afghan counterparts as ill-disciplined, badly led and with a crippling taste for hashish
Combat Outpost: exclusive film from the Afghan frontline
As US and the UK forces struggle for a way forward in Afghanistan, John D McHugh's unique film from one of the US military's most dangerous outposts shows just how western forces are losing ground to the Taliban
Six months in Afghanistan
Photographer John D McHugh has recently completed his Six months in Afghanistan multimedia project for the Guardian. Here is a selection of his work
'You may have the watches, but we have the time'
While a huge US-Afghan mission sweeps across a valley in Logar province searching in vain for Taliban fighters, an American captain gives his views of the fresh challenges he faces
Dust Off Two Seven: the US helicopter medics
Medevac on the Afghan frontline
The Ugly of War: Dying children in a helicopter
A US medical evacuation (Medevac) crew chief recounts the most traumatic mission he has ever flown
US soldiers from Alpha Company, 101st Airborne Division patrol the Kharwar district, Afghanistan
Nation builders or warriors?
In the fourth of his extraordinary films about what life is really like for the US military in Afghanistan John D McHugh talks to Charlie company as they attempt to follow the often contradictory instructions laid out in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual
The new 'great game'
John D McHugh on the struggle for power and influence in Afghanistan's highly porous border region with Pakistan
Afghanistan: Lost in translation
When Charlie Company try to speak to a Pashtun elder, the gulf is so great even the interpreters have given up interpreting. John D McHugh reports
Afghanistan: 'The Afghans have been written out of the plot'
The Observer's Peter Beaumont and photographer John D McHugh speak to Jon Dennis about the way the war in Afghanistan is being reported around the world
A spring offensive by any name
Whether or not it is coordinated, the annual upsurge in Taliban attacks is very real, writes John D McHugh in his latest diary extract from Afghanistan
Lumberjacks with body armour
Tree clearance is an essential part of Charlie Company's defences, writes John D McHugh in his latest diary extract from Afghanistan
'Tension, mistrust and ever-present danger'
Photojournalist John D McHugh joins Charlie Company at an outpost near the Pakistan border in his latest diary extract from Afghanistan
Manning 'speed bumps' against the Taliban
Photojournalist John D McHugh endures attacks on border outposts, false alarms and French pranks in his fifth diary extract from Afghanistan
Breakfast with the rocket man
In his fourth diary extract from Afghanistan, the photojournalist John D McHugh reflects on Pashtun honour and ingrained suspicion of Pakistan
'You build a school, then find propaganda against you'
In his third diary extract from Afghanistan, embedded photojournalist John D McHugh visits a coalition-built school which ends up being his home for the night
Flying in for a feast with Charlie Company
In his second diary entry from Afghanistan, embedded photojournalist John D McHugh crosses the mountains from Salerno for a cookout at a US military base in Bermel
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