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 ...

In Helmand province, the news of Taliban victory ending two decades of war and U.S. occupation, was met with joy and relief. This region was home to some of the most gruesome fighting during the war.

After first landing in Afghanistan in 2001, the Marines fought at many battles, including at Garmser. From 2009 to 2014, Helmand Province was the center of Marine operations in Afghanistan, Smith ...

The commission will hold a multipanel hearing on what for many is a defining point of the war: President Barack Obama’s troop ...

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.

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There has been a 99 per cent fall in poppy production in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province ...

E arly 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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Afghan man walks through a poppy field in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, Afghanistan 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others ...