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CNN
April 29, 2018
A Taliban attack in Afghanistan's southeastern Ghazni province earlier this month claimed 14 lives, including that of a district governor. Read More. At least 13 people were killed and 35 others injured last month in a car bombing outside a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.
ReliefWeb
April 29, 2018
And, in Lashkar Gah, Helmand's regional capital, a suicide car bomb left over 50 dead and injured as they left a sports stadium on March 26th. Iraq similarly saw 88% of civilian casualties from explosive violence occur due to IEDs. However, the downward trend in such violence continued. In Somalia andÃâà...
Xinhua
April 28, 2018
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, April 28 (Xinhua) -- At 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 AliÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 20, 2018
The other six districts (Nad Ali, Lashkar Gah, Nahri Sarraj, Nawa-I- Barak Zayi, Washer, and Garmser) there are contested. LWJ and RS/SIGAR concur on the assessments of the seven Taliban controlled districts. Baghran, a remote district in northern Helmand, has remained under Taliban control since theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 2, 2018
Dawood Shah Safari, head of the provincial education department, told RFE/RL that a total of 52 girls were transferred on April 2 to a hospital in Helmand Province's capital, Lashkar Gah. Dr. Nisar Ahmad Barak said the girls were admitted at his hospital with headaches and vomiting, adding that they wereÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 1, 2018
The strike, a desperate bid to get the Taliban and Afghan government reach a peace deal, started late on Thursday in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, after more than 20 people were killed by a car bomb blast outside a sports stadium on March 23. Activists pitched tents at the site of the attack, whereÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 31, 2018
The strike, in a bid to get the Taliban to make peace with the Afghan government, started late on Thursday in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, after more than 20 people were killed by a car bomb blast outside a sport stadium on March 23. Activists pitched tents at the site of the attack, where Afghan men,Ãâà...
RadioFarda
March 24, 2018
A car bomb has exploded at the entrance of a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southwestern province of Helmand, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens as they were leaving a wrestling match. Aminullah Abed, the head of the province's public health department, said atÃâà...
Jefferson City News Tribune
March 24, 2018
Aminullah Abed, the chief of the province's public health department, said the casualties were received at a hospital in the province's capital, Lashkar Gah, with six of the wounded in critical condition and many others burnt beyond recognition. The explosion occurred after Afghan new year celebrationsÃâà...
Irish Times
March 24, 2018
Besides the Kandahar TB project, MSF works in partnership with the Afghan Ministry of Public Health in Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah, in Ahmad Shah Baba Hospital in eastern Kabul and in the maternity of Dasht-e-Barchi District Hospital in western Kabul. It also runs its own maternity hospital in Khost CityÃâà...
CNN International
March 24, 2018
The incident took place outside a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. A wresting match was taking place ... Emergency, an Italian humanitarian organization that operates a surgical center in Lashkar Gah, received several of the victims. "We heard a loud explosion from ourÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 24, 2018
The suicide attack happened in Lashkar Gah, the capital of opium poppy-rich Helmand province, as spectators were leaving a wrestling match at the stadium, provincial governor spokesman Omar Zwak told AFP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which Zwak said killed at leastÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 24, 2018
A car bomb exploded outside a sports stadium in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens more, officials said, capping a bloody week in the war-torn country. The blast happened in Lashkar Gah as spectators were leaving a wrestling match at the stadium, HelmandÃâà...
BBC News
March 24, 2018
A suspected suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more in a car bomb attack on a sports stadium in the Afghan province of Helmand. The blast happened at a wrestling match at the Ghazi Muhammad Ayub Khan stadium in the region's capital Lashkar Gah. The car was reportedlyÃâà...
Firstpost
March 24, 2018
"A car bomb blast happened at the entrance gate to the sports stadium in the first Police District of Lashkar Gah city," Helmand province's police spokesman Salam Afghan told AFP. Helmand governor spokesman Omar Zwak said at least 10 people had been killed and 37 others wounded. "The explosionÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 6, 2018
LASHKAR GAH - To strategize on practical steps toward improving security and fostering economic development in Helmand, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces, community leaders gathered at a UN-backed symposium in the provincial capitol. At the event, organized by UNAMA's KandaharÃâà...
Xinhua
February 28, 2018
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Air raids against illicit drug centers in the poppy growing southern Helmand province have left 13 Taliban fighters dead, said a statement of Miwand Army Corps released here on Wednesday. According to the statement, the airstrikes conducted in theÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
February 28, 2018
Militants continue to close in on the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, and government forces have sustained heavy losses. Afghan commanders, meanwhile, have pleaded with the US military to intensify airstrikes, a request which Ghani broadly supports. Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand's governor,Ãâà...
Saudi Gazette
February 27, 2018
Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, on Saturday. — AFP. KABUL — The Taliban has called for direct talks with the US to find a “peaceful solution” to the conflict in Afghanistan, in an apparent policy reversal after months of escalatingÃâà...
Gandhara
February 15, 2018
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- A white unmarked Toyota pickup truck carries 10 armed young fighters to a frontline. All are dressed like Taliban fighters, with most wearing black or dark green khet partug -- a long loose tunic and baggy pants. All are wearing the distinctive black or white turbans preferred byÃâà...
Gandhara
February 8, 2018
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Afghan police are needed to protect people and government institutions in remote districts across Afghanistan's largest province, Helmand. Instead, police officers and soldiers from the restive districts in the southern province are being deployed to protect senior officials andÃâà...
The Quint
December 31, 1999
LASHKAR GAH, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Feb. LASHKAR GAH, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2018 shows a damaged vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 2018. At least five people, including two assailants, wereÃâà...
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
Security forces inspect the site of a suicide bombing in the diplomatic area of capital Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said several people were wounded in Saturday's attack in the Shash Darak area of Kabul, near NATO headquarters and not far fromÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A suicide car bombing ripped through a main road in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Saturday morning, local police said. The blast occurred roughly at 9:05 a.m. local time (0435 GMT), causing casualties and destruction in the city, capital ofÃâà...
KMOV.com
December 31, 1999
A suicide attacker also injured at least eight people when he detonated a car bomb in the city of Lashkar Gah, the regional capital, Helmand provincial spokesman Omar Zwak told CNN. Two policemen, women and children were among those hurt in the blast, Zwak said. Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesman,Ãâà...
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