Eight children were injured on Wednesday when a stray mortar landed on a street in southern Helmand province. Four of the children were said to be in critical condition after they sustained wounds in the mortar strike in…
US forces for a second time bombed another four narcotics making factories of Taliban militants in southern Helmand province, the provincial government said on Wednesday, but the rebels said they owned no such facilities. The governor’s house of…
Twenty-seven people have been released from the Taliban jail in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province during security forces raid, an official said on Sunday. Maj. Abdul Qader Bahadorzia, spokesman for 215th Maiwand Military Corps, told Pajhwok…
At least five smugglers have been detained in southern Helmand province with more than 700 kilograms of narcotics in their possession, an official said on Wednesday. The Helmand Police Chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Ghafar Sapai, told Pajhwok Afghan…
More than 90 Taliban insurgents have been killed and scores of others injured during an ongoing operation that was launched two weeks back in Greshk district of southern Hemand province. Greshk district police chief Capt. Mohammad Ismail Khpalwak…
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday notified about dispatching a team for scrutiny of the mistaken airstrike in southern Helmand province that killed nine Afghan security personnel. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the MoD spokesman, during a press conference…
Acting police chief for Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province has been killed in a Taliban ambush, officials said Wednesday. Governor’s spokesman, Omar Zwak told Pajhwok Afghan News that Abdul Basir, the acting police chief of the…
At least 17 Taliban insurgents and two Afghan soldiers have been killed during air-and-ground operations in different areas of southern Helmand province, officials said on Thursday. Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News NATO and Afghan…
Interior Minister Mohammad Wais Barmak on Monday said positive change would come soon in the security situation of southern Helmand province. Barmak told a meeting in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, he visited Helmand to review the security situation…
Local security officials on Tuesday said 13 militants have suffered casualties and a number of weapons and explosives seized in northeastern Kunduz and southern Helmand province. A security official who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Efforts at reconciling militants could not bear fruitful results in southern Helmand province due to the lack of interest on the part of government and the peace body, a former peace negotiator said on Monday. Former head of…
Overnight clashes and a bomb blast left 20 insurgents and two security men dead in southern Helmand and southeastern Paktika provinces, officials said Monday. Seven insurgents were killed and four others wounded during a clash with Afghan Local…
At least 13 were killed and 19 others, mostly civilians, were wounded on Sunday when a suicide car bomber struck an Afghan army convoy in southern Helmand province. The attack took place in Dwa Pula area of Nawa…
Two women have been killed in separate incidents of domestic violence in southern Helmand province, officials said on Friday. A woman was stabbed to death by her spouse in Washir district on Thursday, the provincial women’s affairs director,…
At least 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and 20 Taliban militants have been killed during a clash in Greshk district of southern Helmand province, officials said Tuesday. A police official in Greshk, who wished to go unnamed,…
A NATO airstrike hit a vehicle full of explosives that went off killing five insurgents in the Nawa district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday. Nawa police chief, 2nd Lt. Abdul Salam, told Pajhwok Afghan…
A primary court of the Anti-Corruption Criminal Justice Center (ACJC) has sentenced a former police chief for southern Helmand province to three years in prison. Brig. Gen. Abdul Rahman Sarjang was appointed as Helmand police chief in October…
Four Taliban attackers were killed 20 hours after they attacked a money exchange market in Greshk district of southern Helmand province, an official said Saturday. The coordinated attack began at around 7:00am on Friday morning in the district…
At least 29 Taliban fighters have been killed and 20 others injured in latest airstrikes and clashes in various districts of southern Helmand province amid reports the rebels were making advancement. Nearly a dozen militants were killed and…
A district police chief was among seven other police killed in separate incidents of violence in southern Ghazni and Helmand provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The Jaghatu district police chief, Manzoor Hussain, was killed along with one bodyguard…
Local officials in southern Helmand province on Monday called for immediately sending reinforcements to Nawa district amid heavy clashes about half a kilometer away from the district headquarters. Nawa district chief Agha Mohammad Takra told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Twenty-eight civilians were killed and 89 others wounded in different attacks in southern Helmand province in the past one month, a civil society organization said on Friday. Aziz Rahman Tasal, head of the Justice and Protection Organisation, told…
President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said positive changes in the security situation of southern Helmand province would start appearing soon. The president, who arrived here with a high level delegation, said problems being faced by the Afghan forces…
The issue of ghost soldiers in Afghan National Army (ANA) ranks in southern Helmand province has been resolved, military officials claimed on Tuesday. The 215th Maiwand Military Corps commander, Brig. Gen. Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, made the remarks at…
