Press TV / January 12, 2016 The United States is spending billions of dollars on Afghanistan’s “ghost soldiers,” who only exist only on paper, a report says. One reason the Afghan National Army is struggling against Taliban is because nearly 40 percent of its force is constituted on “ghost soldiers,” The Associated Press reported. “At
Press TV / January 8, 2016 About 140 members of the Taliban militant group have been killed in a series of Afghan army operations against the extremists across the country. Provincial police chief, Brigadier General Abdul Rahman Sarjang, said on Wednesday that 120 Taliban terrorists have been killed in an offensive in the Marjah district of the southern province
Doctors Without Borders: Sam Templeman is an Australian paediatric nurse. He was in Helmand province, in the south of Afghanistan, from December 2014 to September 2015. In the provincial capital city, Lashkar Gah, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) supports the Ministry of Public Health Boost Hospital. Templeman shares some intimate moments of this emotional
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 6, 2016 A U.S. military official says two wounded U.S. soldiers and the body of a third have been evacuated from a battlefield in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. “All casualties have been evacuated” following fighting the day before near the city of Marjah, U.S. Army Colonel Mike Lawhorn
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 6, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan authorities said that security forces made advances Wednesday in a volatile southern district, killing 43 Taliban insurgents and wounding many others. The fighting in Marjah, a Taliban-held district in the restive Helmand province, erupted a day earlier when Afghan forces backed by U.S. military personnel launched a
VOA News / January 5, 2016 Carla Babb PENTAGON – One U.S. service member was killed and two others were wounded Tuesday during fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, where Taliban fighters recently have expanded their operations. U.S. defense officials said American special forces units were involved in the operation near the city of Marja, a scene
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — A military chopper crashed in Marja district of the southern Helmand province on Tuesday, with casualties feared, a local official said. “The helicopter crashed in Sepon area of Marja district,” the official told Xinhua but declined to be identified, saying authorized officials would brief the media after completion
The Washington Post: Barely a year after the last American advisors departed, Sangin, a rural district in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, is reportedly on the edge of falling to the Taliban, the last police there under siege in what used to be NATO’s Forward Operating Base Jackson. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Some reports indicate the Taliban has seized control of several parts of Helmand province. Security forces battling the Taliban on the front line have said that the Taliban has forced residents in Marjah to evacuate their homes and that the group has planted mines on the roads. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 2, 2016 Afghan special forces have freed 59 prisoners from a Taliban jail in southern Helmand Province, officials said on January 2. Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said 37 of the captives were soldiers, another seven were policemen, and the rest were civilians. An operation to free the captives