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AFGHAN FORCES TAKE KEY HELMAND DISTRICT FROM TALIBAN
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›
BACK IN AFGHAN HOT SPOT US MARINES CHASE DIMINISHED GOALS
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›
AFGHAN WAR WILL END ONLY WHEN NATO LEAVES, SAYS TALIBAN LEADER
That conflict killed more than 50,000 civilians and gave rise to the Taliban... READ MORE›
SUICIDE CAR BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN KILLS 29
Afghan men carry a victim of a powerful car bomb in the capital of Helmand province on Thursday... READ MORE›
AFGHAN BOMBING HITS WORKERS LINED UP FOR PAY, KILLING OVER 20
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›
29 DEAD AFTER CAR BOMB HITS AFGHAN BANK IN RESTIVE HELMAND PROVINCE, GOVERNOR SAYS
The Defense Department is finalizing plans to send more troops to Afghanistan where there are now 8,400 U.S. forces... READ MORE›
DEADLY CAR BOMB HITS AFGHANISTAN'S LASHKAR GAH
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›
US AIR RAID KILLS AFGHAN FORCES IN HELMAND
NATO set to discuss sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, but many in Kabul fear such a move could prolong war... READ MORE›
LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
MARINES BACK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR JOB THEY THOUGHT WAS DONE
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›
US MARINES RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN'S VOLATILE HELMAND PROVINCE
Helmand for years was the centrepiece of the US and British military intervention in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 50 FEARED DEAD IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES BASE - US MILITARY
Some 6,400 NATO soldiers remain in Afghanistan, following the large-scale NATO troop reduction there in 2014... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Gereshk District
US SOLDIERS TOLD TO IGNORE AFGHAN ALLIES ABUSE OF BOYS
After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
TWO AMERICANS KILLED IN ATTACK ON BASE IN AFGHANISTAN
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE SHIRE MOVES TO PREPARE SALIX BID
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›
MASSIVE BOMB DROPPED BY U.S. KILLED 94, AFGHAN OFFICIAL SAYS
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›
TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED
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›
HOPELESS AFGHAN STRUGGLE TO SAVE BOY SEX SLAVES
'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›
ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN
Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›
EUROPE MAKES DEAL TO RETURN REFUGEES TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE WAR AWAITS THEM
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›
UN SAYS AFGHAN TALIBANS REACH IS WIDEST SINCE 2001
All four of the United Nations provincial evacuations took place in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
THE BAND OF BROTHERS FORGED IN AN AFGHAN MINEFIELD
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 AFGHAN TALIBAN AFTER TUNNEL ATTACK
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›
US IS STRUGGLING IN ITS EFFORT TO BUILD AN AFGHAN AIR FORCE
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›
AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE
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›
TALIBAN PRESENT GENTLER FACE BUT WIELD IRON FIST IN AFGHAN DISTRICT
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›
HELMAND: TALIBAN KILL POLICEMEN AND CONFISCATE WEAPONS
Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... READ MORE›
KABUL POLICE BOSS QUITS AMID ATTACKS
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month... READ MORE›
WE WASTED $113B IN AFGHANISTAN, NO WONDER 'AMERICA FIRST' RESONATES
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›
SUICIDE BLAST HITS SOUTHERN AFGHAN CITY UNDER TALIBAN SIEGE; AT LEAST 14 DEAD
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›
A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS LOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN AS THE NUMBER OF DISPLACED CLIMBS
But now, -Afghanistan is witnessing some of its worst violence since the United States helped to topple the Taliban... READ MORE›
ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
A TALIBAN PRIZE WON IN HOURS AFTER YEARS OF STRATEGY
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›
BOKO HARAM LAUNCHES TWIN ATTACKS IN NIGER AND CAMEROON
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›
TURKISH POLICE USE WATER CANNON ON PROTESTERS DECRYING RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
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›
5 UAE DIPLOMATS DISCUSSING AFGHAN AID PROJECTS KILLED IN KANDAHAR BLAST
This attack is against the national security of Afghanistan, Ghorzang said... READ MORE›
BRITISH TROOPS LEARN WHAT IT'S LIKE TO FACE RUSSIAN FORCES AS THEY TRAIN UKRAINIANS
British troops sent to train Ukrainian forces fighting battling Russian-backed separatists are also learning from their pupils... READ MORE›
TEBBIT WANTS EU MIGRANTS TO BE ASSESSED BY WHO THEIR FAMILY FOUGHT FOR IN WORLD WAR II
Taliban attacks on Thursday and Friday on Camp Bastion, in southern Helmand Province, were symbolic as well as deadly... READ MORE›
AFGHAN OFFICIALS KILLED BY TALIBAN IN 3 ATTACKS
The insurgents in Musa Qala are entirely Taliban forces... READ MORE›
23 KILLED, DOZENS INJURED AS TWIN BLASTS ROCK KABUL
23 killed, dozens injured as twin blasts rock Kabul -- RT News... READ MORE›
BOUNTIFUL AFGHAN OPIUM HARVEST YIELDS PROFITS FOR THE TALIBAN
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›