The joint offensive in central Helmand involves American, Canadian, British, Danish and Estonian forces. Nato says Afghan forces have been closely involved in planning, and are playing a central role ...

Today, the U.S. Marines kicked off a new push against bad guys in Afghanistan's fertile and poppy-rich southern province. Per the AP: Gen. David Petraeus says the Marine Corps offensive launched ...

In Helmand, for instance, we were down there on patrols and saw a little bit of action. But what was clear was that the troops couldn't go into an area and then establish a presence. They had to ...

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 ...

Although Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, has largely been shielded from the violence elsewhere in the province, it still remains a city on edge. International ...

Afghanistan's Helmand province could fall to the Taliban after months of heavy fighting, with 90 members of the security forces killed over the past two days, the deputy governor of the volatile ...

Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in opium poppy-producing areas of the Helmand River valley on Thursday at the start of a major new offensive Washington hopes will ...

As towns in Helmand Province fall, Marines speak out. August 27, 2015. LCpl. Jeremy Parker watches as a MEDEVAC helicopter lifts off in Musa Qala, Afghanistan 2010. (Courtesy Jeremy Parker) ...