It was April 2009 and I was on leave before going to Helmand Province in Afghanistan as part of the British Army’s effort to bring security to the country. The peace was broken only by the sound ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles Times covers the price paid by US Marines during the difficult campaign in Sangin: When the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, deployed to the Sangin district of ...

Afghan security forces say they have arrested a German man in southern Helmand province who has been a long-time military adviser to the Taliban. The man was captured with other three other ...

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows. This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review the new BBC documentary Helmand: Tour of Duty.

The Lost Platoon' is the story of two dozen or so men from the Welsh Guards who, in 2009, found themselves in an Afghan fort deep in the Helmand badlands cut off from their comrades, with ...

Kabul and Tehran have conflicting claims over the Helmand river’s water, but other mutual interests bind the two sides together despite this point of contention. Neither the Helmand River ...

According to TOLOnews, all local media outlets in Helmand province have stopped operating. The staff of the TV and radio center left the building two days ago. Early in July, the Taliban took ...

The Taliban claimed suicide bombings in central Kabul and in southern Helmand province, and the UAE's ambassador to Afghanistan was injured in a separate blast at a governor's house in Kandahar ...

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.

Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand province is under heavy assault from the militants, despite persistent US and Afghan air strikes. The Taliban are said to have seized a TV station. Thousands of ...