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 ...

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 administrative center of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, TOLOnews television network reports referring to its sources. According to TOLOnews, all local media outlets in Helmand province have ...

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.

Up to 50 people were killed and about 90 injured in three attacks across Afghanistan on a bloody Tuesday. The Taliban claimed suicide bombings in central Kabul and in southern Helmand province ...