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Daily Signal
April 12, 2018
A soldier takes position during a military operation in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 9, 2016. (Photo: ... If there is to be a negotiated peace for the Afghan people, the Taliban must overcome its enmity toward the Afghan government and engage in a peace process with Kabul. In terms ofÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 11, 2018
According to the senators, government should reveal the names of officials involved in drug smuggling activities. “Approximately this year hundreds of tons of drugs have been taken out of the country. How were these drugs smuggled? No doubt someone has a hand in it,” said senator Mustafa Zahir.
Global Voices Online
April 9, 2018
Car bombings in Afghanistan's flash point Helmand province are sadly ordinary events, but one particularly devestating blast that took place recently has ... a sit-in camp, demanding a two-day cease-fire between the Taliban group and the Afghan government, with around 30 activists going on hunger strike.
USNI News
April 3, 2018
Abdul Raziq Hotak, the commander of the 1st Brigade, as he details his course of action over the next few days for operation Maiwand 10 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Dec. 26, 2017. ... Ghani has a goal of bringing 80 percent of Afghanistan under government control in four years. “I think we shouldÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 29, 2018
Khial Bibi has lost five children and a husband to the war ravaging Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold that has been the scene of deadly militant attacks and bloody gunbattles with government forces for years. "We want the violence to stop," the elderly Bibi says inside aÃâà...
BBC News
March 23, 2018
Large areas of Helmand province are under Taliban control, but government forces and US airstrikes have prevented Lashkar Gah from falling to the group. In January, a BBC study found that Taliban fighters were now openly active in 70% of the country. Last month Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offeredÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 21, 2018
Our military has, however, been able to assist the ANDSF to recapture areas in Helmand province, the central province in the generation of opium-related income for the Taliban, government officials and local warlords. Such success, if built upon, may change both the economic and political situation.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 20, 2018
LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Security forces have occupied 20 school buildings and are using them as security posts in different areas of southern Helmand province, the education info-icon director ... The student asked the government to reconstruct their school so they were able to continue their studies.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 18, 2018
militants clashed in southern Helmand province last night, with both sides claiming to have inflicted casualties on the other. Abdul Basir Achakzai, 611 Highway Police ... Meanwhile, a government source aid an airstrike killed a child in Nad Ali district yesterday. On the other hand, the Taliban claimed killingÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 17, 2018
Afghan National Police (ANP) soldier Hamidullah, from Helmand province, has built his own missile that can travel for 6kms. ... “The idea came to me because the police do not get heavy weapons and government has not equipped the police with heavy weapons and hence I made the missile to use itÃâà...
Forces Network
March 14, 2018
It's October 2011 Kakaran village, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Corporal Sean Jones of the 1st Battalion The Prince of ... With the government men unsure of their new bayonets, the Jacobites speedy charge meant the battle lasted less than 30 minutes. As its potential benefits were realised, the bayonetÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 14, 2018
"We have asked the central government for additional troops before Farah city falls into the hands of the Taliban," Salehi said. Other council members said the assault lasted for three hours. In Helmand Province, a suicide truck bomb struck a checkpoint, killing at least two border police officers, saidÃâà...
Business Insider
March 12, 2018
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters have captured a district center in Afghanistan's western province of Farah bordering Iran, where they have battled government security forces fiercely in recent months, officials said on Monday. Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the provincial governor,Ãâà...
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. ... from unknown assailants. A government source said the slain police officer was cousin and gunner of a former provincial police.
The Columbian
March 12, 2018
... “Fight against Opium” was based on her brother's real-life experience years ago as a translator for U.S. troops in Helmand province and the stories he ... The Taliban, who have been waging war against the Afghan government since 2001, are heavily involved in poppy growing, which has increased inÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 8, 2018
Crawling along the ground ahead of Afghan military convoys, the 31-year-old policeman saved countless lives in southern Helmand province, ... "When it was complicated, it was always Bahadur who did it," one colleague, Haibatullah, told AFP, before adding bitterly: "The government does not care aboutÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 6, 2018
... Dam in Helmand province based on a memorandum of understanding signed between the Afghan Ministry of Finance and the Turkish company on Tuesday. ... “This company will generate electricity for twenty years and then it will hand over the dam to Breshna company and the Afghanistan government.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 6, 2018
LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): A dozen militants have been killed, three captured alive and six others wounded in separate clearing operations in southern Helmand province, an official said on Tuesday. Maj. Abdul Qader Bahaderzai, spokesmen for the 215th Maiwand Military Corps, told Pajhwok AfghanÃâà...
Inside NoVA
March 1, 2018
Carpenter received the medal for his actions while deployed to Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2010. ... and future service members that by raising their right hand when they take the oath they are expressing the will to write a blank check to the government, which may require the sacrifice of life.
ABC News
March 1, 2018
The sale marks a significant increase in U.S. military support for Ukraine — the first lethal weapons sale of its kind since Russian-backed separatists launched a war against the central government in Ukraine's eastern provinces. ABC News first broke news of the sale in December when President TrumpÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 1, 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. The German man was described as having "a long beard, wearing a black turban," according to a spokesman for the local government.
Voice of America
March 1, 2018
"The German national was serving as an adviser to Taliban's Red Unit [Taliban Commando] in southern Helmand province," General Mohammad Dawood Tarakhil, an Afghan local ... Neither the German government nor German forces serving under the U.S.-led NATO mission has commented on the news.
Human Rights Watch
February 20, 2018
... next to an Afghanistan flag at a guard post of a police camp in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 6, 2012. ... (New York) – The Afghan government and US military should investigate reports that Afghan special forces summarily executed civilians in KandaharÃâà...
Gandhara
February 15, 2018
FILE: Members of the Afghan security forces take position during an operation against Taliban in Helmand province in April 2017. ... As members of a secretive Afghan government militia, their mission on a cold February morning is to infiltrate groups of insurgent fighters along a tense frontline in the restiveÃâà...
Gandhara
February 12, 2018
Afghan officials say a Taliban attack has killed 16 members of a pro-government militia force in the southern province of Helmand. The officials said a checkpoint belonging to the militiamen in Gareshk district was targeted during the night of February 10. Some reports said a Taliban infiltrator who hadÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 9, 2018
A government team has arrived in the southern Helmand province to assess people's complaints about presence of illegal armed men in Nad Ali district. The residents claim that illegal armed men have created problems for them. Mohammad Ayub Rafiqi, an advisor to President Ashraf Ghani who heads theÃâà...
News & Observer
February 1, 2018
Afghan forces backed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand Province have gained ground in recent months, but the Taliban still maintains control over roughly half the province, according to the senior Marine commander who just returned from a nine-month deployment to the region.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
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 ... including women, have vowed to continue their demonstration until their demands for a ceasefire by both the Taliban and government have been met.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
We have been divided into three parts: first Afghan government forces, second Taliban, and another the people. We want to bring together these three parts in order to become united,” said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a resident of Paktia. This comes after a new sit-in camp was established in Helmand province – this time in GereshkÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
U.S. Marines stand guard during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan on Jan. 15, 2018 ... The weak central government in Kabul and the resilient Taliban insurgency are not the U.S. military's only problems there.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
The grass-roots call for peace by some residents that began as a sit-in in Afghanistan's restive Helmand province is gathering momentum and spreading to .... The Afghan High Peace Council (HPC), a government body tasked with talking to the insurgents, also praised the initiative of Helmand residents.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
An Afghan Army spokesman said that 18 government soldiers were killed and two others wounded, and that a firefight with the attackers had continued ... The Taliban also staged two suicide strikes in Helmand Province, including the one involving the explosive-laden Humvee, which are armored and areÃâà...
