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Articles of the author LASHKAR GAH
Afghan troops battle Taliban offensive in Helmand
Afghan forces said they were holding off a Taliban offensive in Helmand province on Tuesday, as reinforcements and air support arrived. Both sides reported heavy fighting as Taliban militants attacked government positions in Sangin district, an area (...)

01 - 02 - 2017
Afghan forces plan offensive after Taliban Helmand attack
Afghanistan has deployed hundreds of commandos backed by NATO air strikes in Lashkar Gah to flush out Taliban insurgents from the strategic city after the militants killed 14 people in a coordinated attack, officials said on Tuesday. The assault on (...)

12 - 10 - 2016
Afghan troops pull out of strategic Helmand district
Afghan forces have pulled out of bases in Musa Qala, a strategic district of the southern province of Helmand, after months of heavy fighting with Taliban insurgents, officials said on Saturday. Helmand, a traditional heartland of the Taliban and (...)

21 - 02 - 2016
Afghan Taliban use captured Humvees in suicide attack
Taliban insurgents in captured military Humvee vehicles launched suicide attacks in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Saturday, killing several members of the security forces in the district centre of Sangin, a senior official said, (...)

13 - 02 - 2016
U.S. air strikes hit targets in embattled Afghan district
U.S. aircraft carried out two attacks in Sangin, the district in southern Afghanistan overrun by Taliban insurgents this week, officials said on Thursday, as the battle for the strategic province of Helmand continued, Reuters reported. The Taliban, (...)

24 - 12 - 2015
Afghan forces battle to push back Taliban in Helmand
Afghan forces on Wednesday battled Taliban fighters who overran the district of Sangin in the southern province of Helmand this week after reinforcements and NATO military advisers were rushed in to try to stop another district falling into (...)

24 - 12 - 2015
Afghan forces battle to push back Taliban from southern city
Afghan government forces, bolstered by hundreds of fresh troops and elite commandos, battled on Wednesday to push the Taliban back from around the capital of the southern province of Helmand after fierce fighting a day before. The fighting near the (...)

22 - 10 - 2015
Gunmen kill seven in attack in Afghan south - police
Gunmen opened fire on a gathering of Afghan clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, Reuters quoted police as saying on Wednesday. The Ulemma Council came under attack after it had repeatedly announced its support for (...)

13 - 05 - 2015
12 killed in Afghanistan violence
A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians Sunday when he detonated his explosives near a crowd in southern Afghanistan, while a roadside bomb in the east killed two others, officials said. Meanwhile, Afghanistan's hardline vice president expressed hope (...)

22 - 03 - 2010
Marines gearup for major Afghan assault
US Army soldiers have launched a major operation in support of a planned US-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan. About 400 US troops from the 5th Stryker Brigade as well as 250 Afghan soldiers and their 30 (...)

10 - 02 - 2010
NATO to hold Marjah ‘forever'
NATO forces and their Afghan allies hope to hold territory seized from the Taliban in an imminent major operation “forever”, the commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province said. British and US forces are poised to take (...)

09 - 02 - 2010
17 civilians killed in Afghan attack
Women and children were among 17 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Friday, but it was not clear if they were victims of a foreign air strike or Taleban rockets. The issue of civilian casualties is an emotive one in (...)

18 - 10 - 2008
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