Tolo News: Kandahar’s police chief General Abdul Raziq said that Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada visited Helmand a week and a half ago where he met with Taliban members. Raziq said that the visit had been at the request of Pakistan’s intelligence services, ISI. According to him, the Taliban leader visited Mosa Qala in Helmand after
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 1, 2017 Afghan officials say 10 members of the country’s security forces were killed after the Afghan Air Force mistakenly dropped bombs on their position in the southern province of Helmand. Provincial Governor Hayatullah Hayat said on October 1 that at least nine police officers were wounded in the air
Press TV August 27, 2017 At least 13 people have been killed and several more injured in a Taliban bombing attack on a convoy of troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. “A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled car as the Afghan National Army convoy passed a small market in Nawa District of Helmand,” said the spokesman
Press TV August 23, 2017 At least five people have been killed and over 2 dozen wounded when a car bomb exploded at a police headquarters in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province. The blast took place in Lashkargah, Helmand’s provincial capital, on Wednesday, with the Taliban militant group claiming the responsibility for the bombing. “A …
Press TV / August 19, 2017 At least five Afghan policemen have been killed after the Taliban militant group launched an attack against their checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, local police say. General Abdul Ghafar Safi, the provincial police chief, said the incident occurred in Nawa district late on Friday, where fierce clashes
Tolo News: A clinic, established two and half years ago in southern Helmand province, uses water therapy and counseling to treat drug addicts rather than medication. Clinic staff said water therapy was more effective than prescribing medicine. The clinic is now however run by a recovering addict who was once a patient at the clinic. Click
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 4, 2017 Afghan officials say at least five security troops have been killed in a Taliban militant attack on a money-exchange market in the southern province of Helmand. Authorities said at least three gunmen attacked the market and engaged security forces in the Gereshk district early on August 4. A
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2017 The son of Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada died on July 20 carrying out a suicide attack in the embattled Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said on July 22. A government official said authorities were investigating the incident and could not confirm that Haibatullah’s son
KABUL, July 20, (Xinhua) — Taliban militants who have been fighting the government to regain power have intensified activities as the armed group has engaged security forces in several provinces. The militants in their latest waves of targeting government interests, launched massive offensive against government troops in Gereshk district of the southern Helmand province Thursday
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 16, 2017 Afghan troops have recaptured a district from Taliban militants in the volatile southern province of Helmand, a government official said. A large-scale operation to retake Helmand’s Nawa district began early on July 15 with Afghan troops moving in from three different directions as international forces provided air support,