BBC6y
Afghanistan arrests 'German Taliban fighter' in Helmand
Afghan security forces say they have arrested a German man in southern Helmand province who has been a ... a Westerner fighting with insurgents in Afghanistan. Large parts of Helmand are under ...
Long War Journal15y
Maps created by The Long War Journal
Click map for full view. The Peshawar-Khyber region. Map created by Bill Raymond for The Long War Journal. Taliban presence, by district, in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Helmand provinces. Click map for ...
National Review8y
Sangin, Bloody Sangin, and Wretched Afghanistan
the 3rd Platoon of Kilo Company in the 5th Marine Regiment was patrolling the farmlands in bloody Sangin in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. When I joined them, they were shot at or ...
BBC3y
Afghanistan: Street fighting rages as Taliban attack key city
Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand ... Helmand province had stopped broadcasting due to what it described as Taliban "attacks and threats". Attempts by the militants to capture Kandahar ...
Business Insider India1y
15 years of war has done little stop production in the world's opium capital
The number of Afghanistan's 34 provinces that were free of opium poppies dropped from 14 last year to 13 this year, and every region except the southern one had an increase in opium production.