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Sun. October 12, 2008

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Joel Hafvenstein, the author of Opium Season, sent me an email with some additional thoughts on the prospects of opium in Helmand. ...
The attack in Helmand comes as the British are pushing for peace talks with the Taliban and news has broken that a senior Pakistani military officer was ...
Hundreds of Taliban militants took part in the multi-pronged attack that began late Saturday against Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, ...
Private Gareth Waghorne looks back on his time in Helmand with mixed feelings. He said: "Morale is pretty low right now to be honest. ...

... (AP) NATO airstrikes have helped deliver a pounding to Taliban militants planning an attack outside the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province. ...
The militants died in a battle with Afghan and NATO-led forces on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province. A spokesman for Helmand's ...
Helmand police said its estimates were that 64 attackers were killed in the fighting. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said its reports were ...
I SHARE Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith's short-term analysis of the situation in Helmand (War on Taliban cannot be won, says army chief, World News, ...
At the time of the attack, NATO had banned the use of 500lb bombs in Helmand because of their destructive capability in built-up areas; in this instance, ...
Last week I sat perched inside a Chinook flying over Helmand, trussed up in flak jacket and helmet, squashed between some Royal Marines arriving for a ...
British support is particularly significant, since most of the British troops are concentrated in Helmand province in the southwest, the heartland of the ...
On arrival in Afghanistan, all military personnel must conduct the Helmand Training Package (HTP), which is designed to prepare individuals for what lies ...
WHEN Brigadier Andrew MacKay was put in charge of the Helmand task force in Afghanistan, he wanted to know what impact the conflict was having on his ...
If we cannot win this war, why are British soldiers fighting and dying in the deserts of Helmand province? And for how much longer will this loss of life ...
British troops in Helmand province --Afghanistan's biggest opium poppy producing area, which supplies the bulk of the world's heroin - have done little to ...
In what has become one of the most notorious incidents of the three-year Helmand mission, Cpl Wright - who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his ...
Meanwhile, Afghan police chief of southern Helmand province, Assadullah Shirzad said Afghan forces backed by NATO troops killed 27 militants in Nad Ali ...
American generals have not been impressed with British inability to secure Helmand province, deny Taliban fighters their transit routes for weapons going in ...
If we cannot win this war, why are British soldiers fighting and dying in the deserts of Helmand province? And for how much longer will this loss of life ...
About half of the privates currently on exercise at Salisbury Plain have been recruited since the Anglians served in the Helmand province as their ...
... Merlin - a huge Irish bloodhound - were all waiting on the tarmac as 100 soldiers touched down after a harrowing six month tour of Helmand province. ...
One wrote from the RAF recently: "I got in touch with you while serving in Helmand province in Afghanistan in February, asking for help to find some girls ...
In Helmand province, the British commander maintains that they have "taken the sting out of the Taliban for 2008". But Gulab Mangal, the governor of Helmand ...
Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition forces killed several militants in Nahr Surkh district, Helmand province Oct. 8. An ANSF and Coalition forces ...
The diggers will train alongside British troops and then fight with them as part of the UK's Task Force Helmand. As part of the bilateral program they will ...
This is a line of karez wells about 5.5 miles or so just to the north of Lashkar Gah, along the Helmand River. What is striking about this is in the imagery ...
Last weekend, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, outgoing brigade commander in Helmand province, said that we cannot expect decisive military victory and should ...
Witnesses to Tuesday night's deaths in the province of Helmand said they were caused by an air raid and that no Taliban fighters were present. ...
The only available Chinook was sent to the explosion scene near the Kajaki Dam in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, but it had no equipment to winch ...
Around 700 personnel from RM Condor are making their way to, or are already in, the notorious Sangin area of the Helmand province. ...
The gunners will undertake an intensive six-month training course in the UK before deployment to Helmand province as part of the UK's Task Force Helmand. ...
After a long journey home from the sweltering heat of Helmand province to the autumnal grey skies of Newtownabbey, the troops, wearing their uniforms with ...
... Mark Carleton-Smith said: "16 Air Assault Brigade can reflect with great pride and professional satisfaction at its achievements in Helmand this year. ...
Six others were injured when a patrol encountered the unmarked minefield in the region of Kajaki in Helmand province on September 6, 2006. ...
Another fifteen militants were killed during a clean-up operation in the southern province of Helmand¿s Nad Ali district on Monday, according to foreign ...
I spent two months in Helmand during that tour, and by the end, two of the unit's 36 men were dead, and 15 seriously injured. ...
Sgt Paul McMellon yesterday told the hearing in Oxford of the disastrous patrol in Helmand province. 'When the Chinook descended, it took off again and was ...
Last year, he met 24-year-old Grenadier Guards Lance Corporal Jack Mizon in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. We see Jack on the frontline of ...
This statement by Britain's senior military commander in the province of Helmand sparked inevitable controversy. But we need to look beyond such issues to ...
His platoon defended a space the size of a tennis court from 400 Taliban Insurgents in Afghanistan's wartorn Helmand province. During the nine-day siege ...

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