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   KOAM-TV    
   April 28, 2018    
   In 2007, Garrison left active duty and returned with his family to Missouri, where he served as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri. Garrison's efforts focused on large-scale interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and violent criminals, but alsoÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Xinhua    
   April 28, 2018    
   ... least five people, including four civilians, have been confirmed dead and 10 others including seven civilians injured in a suicide attack Saturday in southern Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car next to a military base in Nad Ali district of the southern Helmand province, said localÃâà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   April 28, 2018    
   LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): One civilian was killed and four others, including two army soldiers, wounded in a car-bombing in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, an official said. Maj. Abdul Qadir Bahadurzai, spokesman for the 215 Maiwand Military Corps, said the bombing tookÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   April 28, 2018    
   At least one civilian was killed and four soldiers were wounded in a car bomb in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province on Saturday, security officials said. According to local security officials the explosion took place near the Afghan National Army's third brigade in Loye Bagh village of the district, when aÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   April 26, 2018    
   LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Unidentified people have beheaded two sisters after being kidnapped in southern Helmand province, officials said Wednesday. Mohammad Salim Rodi, administrative chief of Greshk district, told Pajhwok Afghan News the two sisters were disappeared from the Greshk districtÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   April 21, 2018    
   Provincial Director of Communications Sayed Ahmad Madad told VOA that Manogi and Chapidari districts have been without cell phone service for two ... "In Helmand province alone, cultivation increased by 63,700 hectares (+79%), which accounted for about half of the total national increase," the U.N.Ãâà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   April 20, 2018    
   LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Poets and writers from various provinces and Quetta city and Chaman border town of Balochistan province of Pakistan info-icon took part in the annual Helmand River poetry session in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, last night. Poets from Helmand, Zabul, KandaharÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Long War Journal    
   April 20, 2018    
   Since US forces withdrew of the bulk of its “surge” forces in 2014 and turned over security to Afghanistan's military and police, the security situation has rapidly deteriorated in Helmand province, according to information compiled by FDD's Long War Journal. That data is confirmed by Resolute Support (RS),Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   April 19, 2018    
   Mohammad Nabi, the Taliban's shadow district governor for Washir district of southern Helmand province, was arrested by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Wednesday, the provincial governor's media office said in a statement. Nabi was arrested during an operation which was conducted byÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   April 18, 2018    
   's shadowy district chief for Washir district in southern Helmand province, the spy sdrivne said on Wednesday. A statement from the National Directorate of security (NDS info-icon ) identified the detainee as Mohammad Nabi, son of Sayed Mohammad. It accused Nabi of being behind many terrorist activitiesÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Xinhua    
   April 9, 2018    
   In neighboring Helmand province, three Taliban became the victims of their own bomb after the device exploded prematurely in Gereshk district on Sunday. On the same day, four militants were killed and seven others wounded after ANA artillery struck Taliban position in Bala Buluk district, western FarahÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   April 5, 2018    
   A new sit-in camp was established in Helmand province – this time in Gereshk district – on Thursday, as momentum continues to gather around the peace campaign. Gereshk, which is about 60kms north of Lashkargah City, is considered an insecure area and has experienced many years of violence. Gereshk protestorsÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   April 4, 2018    
   The operations were conducted in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Ghazni, Paktia, Urozgan, Zabul, Badghis, Faryab, Balkh and Helmand provinces, MoD said. Four Daesh militants were killed in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, the MoD's statement said. The ministry said that during the past 24Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Herald-Whig    
   April 4, 2018    
   Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said "initial reports" indicate the airstrike in the Dashti Archi district of Kunduz province killed ... In a separate incident in the southern Helmand province, at least 48 schoolgirls fell ill at a high school in what provincial authorities suspect is a case of massÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   CTV News    
   April 3, 2018    
   Defence Ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said "initial reports" indicate the airstrike in the Dashti Archi district of Kunduz province killed ... In a separate incident in the southern Helmand province, at least 48 schoolgirls fell ill at a high school in what provincial authorities suspect is a case of massÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   March 31, 2018    
   The documents show Baloch was guaranteed by two police officials named Bahadur son of Abdul Qayum and Quraishullah son of Mohammad Sadiq. The guarantee letter shows 2nd Lt. Bahadur serves in Nawa district of southern Helmand province. However, local officials in Nawa district told PajhwokÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Yankees Unscripted    
   March 31, 2018    
   Police in Helmand province in Afghanistan have arrested a German national as well as three Afghan Taliban fighters in the Gereshk district of Helmand province. That statement, however, made no mention of negotiating with the Afghan government - a condition which the United States has long stated isÃâà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   New York Times    
   March 30, 2018    
   KABUL, Afghanistan — Within 24 hours of a recent suicide bombing in Helmand Province, which added at least 14 names to the long list of the dead in ... But in recent years, it has become synonymous with the devastation of the long war, and the lives of residents in most of its districts have been uprooted.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   March 28, 2018    
   Afghan women took to the streets Tuesday in Afghanistan's conservative Helmand province and joined an ongoing man-only sit-in demanding Taliban ... Organizers of the first-ever anti-war demonstration in Helmand say they plan to march towards the insurgent-controlled district of Musa Qala on ThursdayÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   March 28, 2018    
   Mohammad Radmanish, the ministry's spokesman, said that among the 26 killed, 12 Taliban were killed in Khak-e-Safed and Balablok districts and in the capital of Farah province; six were killed in Trinkot district of Uruzgan province, four were killed in Greshk district of Helmand province, three were killedÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Sun Daily    
   March 24, 2018    
   Afghan men carry a wounded man into a hospital following a car bomb in Lashkar Gah the capital of Helmand province on March 23, 2018. ... In October, insurgents controlled or influenced nearly half of Afghanistan's districts – double the percentage in 2015, the US government's office of the SpecialÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TRT World    
   March 24, 2018    
   A car bombing outside a sports stadium in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Friday killed 13 people and wounded 40 others, an official said. ... Over the same period, the watchdog said, the number of districts under Afghan government control or influence fell to its lowest level since DecemberÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   March 24, 2018    
   The military operations which were supported by Afghan Air Force were conducted in Nangarhar, Kunar, Paktia, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Farah, Badghis, Faryab and Helmand provinces. The Daesh militants were killed in Deh Bahal district in Nangarhar, the statement said, adding that “other terroristsÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   March 21, 2018    
   militants attacked their check-post in the Nawa district of the southern Helmand province, a reliable source said on Wednesday. A security official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News insurgents stormed security forces' checkpoint in Ainak locality of the district late on Tuesday night.     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   March 17, 2018    
   According to the ministry, in the first airstrike operation conducted in Nad Ali and Marja districts of Helmand province, 13 insurgents were killed and weapons, ammunition and hideouts were destroyed. The ministry said the second airstrike was conducted in the Chora district of Uruzgan province and 20Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Gandhara    
   March 16, 2018    
   LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- The roar of fighter jets followed by loud bangs in the southern Afghan province of Helmand is now an everyday occurrence. But the ramped-up airstrikes by the U.S.-led military coalition and Afghan forces has so far shown mixed results. While preventing the Taliban fromÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   March 12, 2018    
   Separately, four Taliban militants were killed and three others wounded in Marja district of southern Helmand province late Sunday night, police said. Police spokesman 2nd Lt. Abdul Salaam Afghan said the joint security operation was conducted in Wazir locality. He said separately four Taliban militantsÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   March 6, 2018    
   During a joint four-day operation, at least three Taliban were killed and two others wounded in the Nada Alai district of the province, he concluded. Police spokesman Lt. Abdul Salaam Afghan confirmed the operations and causalities inflicted on the insurgents in Greshk, Nahr-i-Saraj and Nad Ali districts.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   March 1, 2018    
   "Monday night, our commando forces arrested three suspected insurgents, two Afghans and one German national during a raid in Grishk district of southern Helmand province," Defense spokesperson General Dawlat Waziri told VOA. "They had weapons, ammunition and military gear in their possession,"Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Syrian War Daily (blog)    
   March 1, 2018    
   Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkish Air and Land Forces captured three localities from the Syrian Democratic Forces' YPG in Afrin region, as a part of the operation 'Olive Branch' (AR: Ghasin al-Zaytun, TR: Zeytin Dalı). Free Syrian Army captured Kharab Suluq, Haidar, and Janki, as well asÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Province    
   March 1, 2018    
   ... a raid on the Taliban in southern Helmand province. The Defence Ministry's spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, said on Thursday that the Afghan commandos captured the man, whose name was not released, along with two other Taliban fighters in a nighttime raid earlier this week in Helmand's Gereshk district.     
    
    
  
  
   
   ABC News    
   March 1, 2018    
   ... the first lethal weapons sale of its kind since Russian-backed separatists launched a war against the central government in Ukraine's eastern provinces. ... company launches an FMG-148 Javelin anti-tank missile at Mirage patrol base, Musa Qala District, Helmand province on February 8, 2011. more +.     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   March 1, 2018    
   A foreign fighter was arrested in a night raid by commandos in southern Helmand province this week, local officials confirmed. The operation was launched in Gereshk district of Helmand, which also involved air support of foreign troops to target an insurgent save haven, a spokesman for the commandos,Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   BBC News    
   March 1, 2018    
   Afghan security forces say they have arrested a German man in southern Helmand province who has been a long-time military adviser to the Taliban. The man was captured with other three other suspected militants in a raid on a bomb-making site in Gereshk district. His identity is unclear. Officials say heÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)    
   February 28, 2018    
   ... German rebel in western Helmand province. MoD spokesman, Maj. Gen. Dawlat Waziri told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghan forces launched an operation in Mirmandab area of Greshk district of Helmand on Tuesday night. He said that three insurgents including a German national were detained alongÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   CNN    
   February 24, 2018    
   In Helmand province, two Afghan National Army service members were killed in Nad Ali district by an attacker driving a military vehicle packed with explosives, a statement from the Helmand media office said. Earlier Saturday, an attacker riding an explosives-laden motorcycle had sought to target a securityÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   TOLOnews    
   February 24, 2018    
   The bombings happened in Nad Ali district and Lashkargah city of Helmand province, local officials said. Helmand provincial governor's spokesman Omar Zowak confirmed the blasts and said that three soldiers were killed, and 10 others were wounded. “Unfortunately, this morning two car bombs, one in Matki area of NadÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   February 11, 2018    
   The rare overnight “insider” attack took place at a facility linked to the National Directorate of Security or NDS in the Gerishk district, security sources ... The insurgency controls or contests most of the 14 districts in Helmand, the largest Afghan province and one of the world's major poppy producing regions.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Gandhara    
   February 8, 2018    
   Instead, police officers and soldiers from the restive districts in the southern province are being deployed to protect senior officials and lawmakers in the regional capital, Lashkar Gah. ... The district is home to one of Afghanistan's biggest hydroelectric dams and serves as a lifeline for Helmand's agriculture.     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Province    
   December 31, 1999    
   Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghan Defence Ministry, said two other soldiers were wounded in the attack which took place in Bala Buluk district of Farah ... An Afghan official says at least three security personnel have been killed in separate suicide bombing attacks in southern Helmand province.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   December 31, 1999    
   Separately, two early morning suicide bombings targeted Afghan forces in the troubled Helmand province. The first attack occurred in the Nad Ali district where a driver in an explosives-packed armored personnel vehicle, known as a Humvee, targeted an Afghan National Army base. Officials citing initialÃâà...     
    
   
  
   
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