Helmand is critical for a range of regions. First, really the center of gravity for the Taliban insurgency has historically been, and is, in southern Afghanistan.

MUSA QALA, Afghanistan — Taliban rule brought an end last August to America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, but for the many here who suffered unimaginable loss during those decades, peace has ...

The Navy is naming a future amphibious assault ship USS Helmand Province, site of some of the toughest battles during the Afghanistan 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.

Early 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 ...

Like the rest of Afghanistan, Helmand province has been controlled by the Taliban since the U.S. military withdrawal from the country in 2021.

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

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.

WASHINGTON — The next America-class amphibious assault ship will be named after the Helmand province campaign during America’s 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro ...

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 ...

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 ...

But he — and Trump — will also have to confront lingering fallout from Afghanistan and who should be held responsible for the war’s many failures.