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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...
Xinhua
March 16, 2018
On Thursday, six Taliban militants were killed and four others wounded following airstrikes in Kajaki and Marja districts of southern Helmand province, the Afghan Defense Ministry said Friday. The air raids also destroyed six narcotic drug labs together with a heroin-producing machine, the ministry said,Ãâà...
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
March 9, 2018
However, it wasn't long before he was back in the desert only this time it was in faraway Helmand Province, Afghanistan's most southern and largest province and the world's largest opium producer ... Jake was assigned to Fire Support Base Fiddler's Green near Marjah City with approximately 150 Marines.
The Express Tribune
March 9, 2018
Crawling along the ground ahead of Afghan military convoys, the 31-year-old policeman saved countless lives in southern Helmand province, defusing ... released to AFP on February 25, 2018 shows Afghan bomb disposal worker Bahadur Agha walking along a road in Marjah district in Helmand province.
MENAFN.COM
March 8, 2018
During these operations in the past 24 hours, 13 Taliban fighters were killed, seven wounded and five mines discovered and neutralized in Arghandab district of Zabul, 11 insurgents killed, two wounded and seven arrested in Nahr-e-Saraj, Grishk, and Marja district of Helmand, 10 motorbike, three TalibanÃâà...
Inside NoVA
March 1, 2018
Cpl. William “Kyle” Carpenter receives the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama at the White House June 19, 2014. Carpenter received the medal for his actions while deployed to Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2010. Photo by Lance Cpl. Eric Keenan/Department of Defense photo.
Task & Purpose
February 27, 2018
“There shouldn't be this coercive hierarchy,” Matthew Ellis, a former Marine infantryman who suffered a traumatic brain injury following a pair of improvised explosive device strikes in Marjah, Afghanistan, told Task & Purpose. “I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to try and get help.” Ellis was injured inÃâà...
The Times
February 22, 2018
An Afghan security officer who became a local hero for defusing hundreds of Taliban mines by hand — and who defied the insurgents even when they murdered his family — has died in Helmand after his luck finally ran out. Bahadur was defusing a roadside bomb in the town of Marjah, one of hundreds ofÃâà...
Xinhua
February 19, 2018
KABUL, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Up to 28 Taliban militants have been killed in southern restive province of Helmand, the Afghan Defense Ministry said Tuesday. "Twenty-eight terrorists were killed as a result of cordon operations and airstrikes in Dishu, Garmser, Marja, and Musa Qala districts of Helmand," theÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 18, 2018
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's improvised explosive device targeted Afghan National Army's foot patrol and killed two soldiers in Mussahi district. ... Afghan National Security Forces conducted large-scale operations against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Marjah, Nawa-I-Barakzayi, Musa Qala, andÃâà...
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
"The air force's warplanes targeted hideouts of Taliban militants in Gereshk, Nadali, Nahr-e-Saraj, Sangin and Marjah districts of southern Helmand province, on Saturday, killing at least 29 insurgents," said the statement. Several hideouts of Taliban militants were destroyed and their arms and ammunitionsÃâà...
Long War Journal
December 31, 1999
The German national, who goes by the name Abdul Wadood, was captured along with two other Taliban fighters during a raid in the Gereshk distirct in the southern province of Helmand on Feb. 27, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense told reporters. Five Taliban fighters were also killed during the raid inÃâà...
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