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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 » Culture: 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 » Culture: 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 » Culture: 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 ...