The Washington Times said the other day that you've cleared Helmand three times, never held it. Yeah. And once you clear something and don't hold it, you probably didn't really clear it. It has no ...

After first landing in Afghanistan in 2001, the Marines fought at many battles, including at Garmser. From 2009 to 2014, Helmand Province was the center of Marine operations in Afghanistan, Smith ...

In Helmand province, the news of Taliban victory ending two decades of war and U.S. occupation, was met with joy and relief. This region was home to some of the most gruesome fighting during the war.

The Oscar-nominated director’s latest movie is Retrograde, which places him — and, thanks to his style, the viewer — in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in the last year of the war.

"Helmand province, as many of you know … was not just any theater of war. It was the heart of the opium trade, a Taliban stronghold, and the terrain is rugged and formidable as any.

The commission will hold a multipanel hearing on what for many is a defining point of the war: President Barack Obama’s troop ...

A former Welsh Guard has described having a "catastrophic breakdown" after witnessing untold horrors in Afghanistan. Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which ...

Helmand province, as many of you know, was not just any theater of war. It was the heart of the opium trade, a Taliban stronghold.” America-class warships are the largest amphibious assault ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­– Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has named the next America-class big deck amphibious warship after the Helmand province campaign in Afghanistan. “In keeping with ...

United States Marines kneel behind a smoke screen at a helicopter landing zone in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in March 2010. ( Moises Saman / Magnum ) Ideas ...

E arly this month, the Taliban turned up at Akhtar Mohammad’s farm in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, wielding sticks. In half an hour they destroyed a field of poppies that had taken ...

His Military Cross citation for June 8, 2009 reads: 'Private Kennedy was point man during a patrol in Garmsir, Helmand province. 'He came under fire from multiple Taliban positions.