The battle to recapture the district had been fierce, with more than 50 Taliban fighters killed and five security forces wounded, he said... READ MORE›
Marines have returned to Helmand Province to help Afghan forces regain ground lost to the Taliban, and this time there is no timetable for leaving... READ MORE›
That conflict killed more than 50,000 civilians and gave rise to the Taliban... READ MORE›
Afghan men carry a victim of a powerful car bomb in the capital of Helmand province on Thursday... READ MORE›
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban insurgents who dominate most of the province have frequently initiated suicide bombings in the capital... READ MORE›
The Defense Department is finalizing plans to send more troops to Afghanistan where there are now 8,400 U.S. forces... READ MORE›
At least 60 people were wounded in the attack outside the New Kabul Bank branch and most of the casualties were civilians, Hayaullah Hayat said... READ MORE›
NATO set to discuss sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, but many in Kabul fear such a move could prolong war... READ MORE›
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
At the peak of the war in southern Afghanistan, more than 20,000 Marines flooded the Taliban stronghold, pushing the insurgents out of several districts in Helmand... READ MORE›
Helmand for years was the centrepiece of the US and British military intervention in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Some 6,400 NATO soldiers remain in Afghanistan, following the large-scale NATO troop reduction there in 2014... READ MORE›
After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights... READ MORE›
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... READ MORE›
On Saturday, coalition officials announced that a precision strike resulted in the death of two individuals threatening the force in the Achin district of eastern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
The U.S. attack on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed at least four ISIS group leaders, Khogyani said... READ MORE›
Helmand, which accounts for the bulk of Afghanistan's billion dollar opium crop, is already largely in the hands of the Taliban but the capture of Sangin... READ MORE›
'Unconscionable' Bacha bazi has seen a chilling resurgence in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where it is not widely perceived as homosexual or un-Islamic behaviour... READ MORE›
Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›
A leaked European Union memo dated March 3 discussed openly making pledges of aid at this week's conference conditional on Afghanistan's agreement with the repatriation deal... READ MORE›
All four of the United Nations provincial evacuations took place in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Three of them lost legs, while Corporal Mark Wright, of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, suffered fatal wounds... READ MORE›
US air raids hit Taliban positions in the contested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan after the fighters used tunnels to attack government checkpoints, Afghan officials said... READ MORE›
An Afghan public affairs officer tried to shush the colonel as he spoke to a journalist at the Afghan Air Force base at Kabul airport... READ MORE›
But by one important measure, Lieutenant Javed and the other soldiers in the district are succeeding The Taliban flag does not yet fly over Musa Qala... READ MORE›
But in most ways, the social restrictions that made the Taliban international pariahs during their reign have been resurrected in full in Baghran... READ MORE›
Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... READ MORE›
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month... READ MORE›
After 15 years, The reconstruction effort in Afghanistan is in a perilous state, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko concludes in his 236-page report... READ MORE›
Authorities said the bomber and three other insurgents were killed, and Afghan security forces conducted house-to-house searches for any hidden Taliban fighters... READ MORE›
But now, -Afghanistan is witnessing some of its worst violence since the United States helped to topple the Taliban... READ MORE›
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
Further, Kunduz Province is far from the only place in Afghanistan where the Taliban have employed similar tactics around provincial capitals this year... READ MORE›
But the development seemed to point less to a major expansion of the Islamic State than to a deepening of internal divisions within the Taliban... READ MORE›
On Saturday, coalition officials announced that a precision strike resulted in the death of two individuals threatening the force in the Achin district of eastern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
This attack is against the national security of Afghanistan, Ghorzang said... READ MORE›
British troops sent to train Ukrainian forces fighting battling Russian-backed separatists are also learning from their pupils... READ MORE›
Taliban attacks on Thursday and Friday on Camp Bastion, in southern Helmand Province, were symbolic as well as deadly... READ MORE›
The insurgents in Musa Qala are entirely Taliban forces... READ MORE›
23 killed, dozens injured as twin blasts rock Kabul -- RT News... READ MORE›
As the opium harvest winds down across Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields... READ MORE›
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