The Taliban's recent moves in Helmand province are causing panic among civilians. Discover how their actions threaten ...

He awed us—most of us were on our first deployment to Afghanistan and Matt had served in combat multiple times and had fought ...

Afghan security forces say they have arrested a German man in southern Helmand province who has been a long-time military adviser to the Taliban. The man was captured with other three other ...

According to TOLOnews, all local media outlets in Helmand province have stopped operating. The staff of the TV and radio center left the building two days ago. Early in July, the Taliban took ...

The Los Angeles Times covers the price paid by US Marines during the difficult campaign in Sangin: When the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, deployed to the Sangin district of ...

He paid about $3,000 to the Taliban youths who helped him, plus a tax of 15 percent. Sangin District was yielding $40 million and Helmand Province was yielding $250 million in farm-gate revenues ...

The order in Helmand province was issued Monday by the provincial Taliban government’s vice and virtue department to barbers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. “Since I have heard (about ...

Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone ...

Ferocious fighting is taking place in a major Afghan city, amid fears it could be the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban. Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand province is under heavy ...

after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand. For a brief period after a Taliban ban on poppies in 2000, Badakhshan even took the lead in poppy cultivation, because the province was controlled ...

In a parade in southern Helmand province, men held yellow canisters to represent the type of explosives used in roadside bombings during the war. The Taliban declared Wednesday a national holiday.

He added that work has started in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and the neighbouring Helmand province, as well ...