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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 » Social: Southern Afghanistan’s alarming increase in admissions of severely malnourished children
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with medical complications requiring ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: 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 » Social: Navy will name its next assault ship ‘USS Helmand Province’ to honor fierce Marine battlefields
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News Afghanistan » Helmand » Social: Iranian President Warns Afghanistan To Abide By Treaty On Water Flows
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has warned the de facto Taliban regime in Afghanistan that its noncompliance with joint agreements on water rights in regions along their shared border is escalating ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Social: 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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Social: 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 ...