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News channel or source: https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/clashes-as-afghan-taliban-edge-closer-to-helmand-capital/
Published on: Wednesday 10 August 2016
Fighting raged Thursday in Helmand after Afghanistan rushed military reinforcements to beat back Taliban insurgents advancing on the besieged capital of the southern poppy-growing province, as ...
News Afghanistan » Helmand » Traffic: Marines rekindling old Afghan relations in Helmand Province
News channel or source: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/joint-chiefs-chairman-in-afghanistan-to-push-new-strategy/
Published on: Sunday 25 June 2017
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 ...