Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 14, 2016 An Afghan commission says more than 700 civilians have been killed or injured in the last nine months in the southern province of Helmand. Since the end of March last year, at least 232 people have died and at least 502 have been injured, the Afghan Independent Human
BBC News: For many in Lashkar Gah the question is whether to stay or go. The battle for control of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Taliban’s traditional power base, has lasted for months. Lashkar Gah is the capital and in government hands. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Preliminary reports suggest a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) has been detonated in Lashkargah city. Provincial governor spokesman Omar Zwak confirms the incident and said at least one person has been injured in the attack which was carried out by a car bomb. No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the
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