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(Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in opium poppy-producing areas of the Helmand River valley on Thursday at the start of a major new offensive Washington hopes ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Commerce: Afghanistan’s Helmand a quicksand of instability
Bruised and frightened, three-year-old Fatima flinches as the thunderous boom of Taliban rockets rolls across the capital of Helmand, an opium-ravaged province that epitomises the biggest failure of ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Commerce: Helmand: Heart of Afghanistan’s unrest
The southern Afghan province of Helmand, where the Taliban have taken control of a district capital for several days, is at the heart of a drug empire that supplies Europe with most of its opium. And ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Commerce: Barbers in Afghanistan's Helmand Province are now prohibited from shaving beards and playing music
Barbers in Afghanistan's Helmand Province are now prohibited from shaving men's beards and playing music in their shops, according to a statement issued by the province's Taliban-led department of ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Commerce: Marines rekindling old Afghan relations in Helmand Province
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Afghanistan’s turbulent Helmand province, U.S. Marines are rekindling old relationships and identifying weaknesses in the Afghan forces that the Trump administration hopes to ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Commerce: FACTBOX: Five facts about Afghanistan's Helmand province
(Reuters) - Washington has sent 8,500 Marines to Afghanistan's restive southern province of Helmand to reinforce overstretched British forces in the face of a growing Taliban-led insurgency, part of a ...