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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban have captured a district in the southern province of Helmand that foreign troops struggled to secure for years, in the latest setback for ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Places: Navy’s next amphibious ship named for Marines’ Helmand province fight
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy will name its next amphibious assault ship in honor of the Marines, Navy corpsmen, allies and partners who served and ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Places: Navy's Newest Warship Named for Fierce Marine Corps Campaign in Afghanistan
The top leader of the Navy announced Thursday that the service's future amphibious ship, a landing helicopter assault vessel, will be named the USS Helmand Province after an intense, yearslong ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Places: 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 » Places: SECNAV Del Toro Names Next Big Deck Amphib USS Helmand Province
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has named the next America-class big deck amphibious warship after the Helmand province campaign in Afghanistan. “In keeping with naval ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Places: Afghanistan's disheartened
KABUL - For those who have escaped Afghanistan's worst violence, some things are hard to forget: the sight of a woman's hair entangled in the mulberry branches, her legs strewn far away in the dirt.
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Places: Water wars: Afghanistan and Iran’s deadly border flare-up spotlights scarcity crisis
Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water. Violence along the border between the two tumultuous countries flared ...