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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 » History: Taliban launch major offensive in Afghanistan’s Helmand province
More than 800 Taliban insurgents have launched a major offensive in southern Afghanistan to try to gain territory recently vacated by US troops, officials said Wednesday, adding that 40 civilians have ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » History: 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 » History: Displaced Afghan families return to destruction and hunger in Helmand
The end of the fighting in Afghanistan this summer came as a relief to farmer Sayed Mohammad*. It meant that he and his family could return to their house in Marja – a war-ravaged farming town in ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » History: FACTBOX-Facts about Afghanistan's Helmand province
(For full coverage on Afghanistan, double click on [ID:nAFPAK]) (Adds links, details) July 18 (Reuters) - July has become the deadliest month for foreign forces in the eight-year-old war in ...