LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 21 (Xinhua) — One police was killed and nine people were wounded after a clash flared up in a local bazaar in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Monday, police said. “The gun firing took place after militants fired by silenced weapons on police at a checkpoint in Tirikh Nawar locality
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A helicopter belonging to NATO-led forces made a “hard” landing in southern Afghanistan Friday, but all personnel on board “have been recovered with no casualties,” a U.S. military spokesman said, dismissing Taliban claims of shooting down the aircraft. The incident happened in the restive Helmand province, the site
Khaama Press: At least 54 Taliban militants were killed in the latest wave of violence in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the defense authorities said Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 3 militants were also wounded during the operations conducted in Khanshin and Nad-e-Ali districts. Click here to read more (external link). Related Security
VOA News Carla Babb March 11, 2016 PENTAGON—The Afghan air force will not reach necessary strength levels until 2020, according to a top U.S. general. General John Campbell, who ended his command of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan last week, told reporters Friday that some aircraft procured for the force would not arrive in
Khaama Press: The Afghan security forces managed to end the Taliban siege of a governmental compound in Greshk district of southern Helmand province by killing all 10 suicide bombers. The siege was ended after two days of resistance by the militants but the local officials said the Afghan forces carefully conducted the clearance operation to prevent
VOA News Carla Babb March 10, 2016 PENTAGON—The Taliban is fracturing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a known Taliban stronghold, a U.S. general in Kabul said Thursday. General Wilson Shoffner told reporters via telephone that the U.S. is seeing an “emergence of three separate Taliban groups” in northern Helmand, and that all three factions are largely
Khaama Press: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Lashkargah city by the Afghan armed forces from the 215th Maiwand Corps. MoD further added that 5 militants were also injured during the operation, while 2 others were arrested in a separate raid by the commandos of the Afghan National Army
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 9, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan’s restive southern province of Helmand say a group of at least 10 heavily-armed Taliban fighters have staged a coordinated assault, triggering a gun battle with security forces. The attack early Wednesday in the Gereshk district targeted the police headquarters and offices of the Afghan spy
LASHKARGAH, Afghanistan, March 5 (Xinhua) — Up to 45 militants have been killed and 35 others injured as a clash erupted in Taliban former stronghold the southern Helmand province on Saturday, an army spokesman in the province Mohammad Rasoul Zazai said. “A group of Taliban militants were attempting to storm security checkpoints in Sangin district
Bakhtar News Agency: Kabul (BNA) While Taliban have being accused by international sources and organizations for using children in battlefields, recently the national defense ministry troops released 35 civilians from the captivity of notorious Taliban in Helmand province. According to BNA report, recently the forces of national defense ministry conducting a special operation in Nad Ali district