Eleven people, including security personnel, have been released from Taliban captivity in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday. General Command of Police Special Unit (GCPSU) forces stormed a Taliban…
Police in Marjah district of southern Helmand province have been in short supply of food items over the past few days, an official said on Monday. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Aqa Noor Kentor said told tribal elders during…
A huge command and control center of Taliban has been destroyed during an operation by security forces in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, officials claimed on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Mohammad Rassoul Zazai, spokesman for the…
Nearly a dozen militants have been killed and their four military vehicles destroyed in separate incidents of violence in southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday. The governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghan…
Families, who fled violence in areas around the capital of southern Helmand province, said on Wednesday they could not return to their homes due to fear of landmines. Haji Agha, a resident of Bolan area, told Pajhwok the…
The Shurab Military Base in southern Helmand province is being turned into one of the country’s eight economic zones over the next one and a half years, officials say. A special commission has been tasked by President Ashraf…
More than 18,000 policemen have been lost to the conflict-related violence in southern Helmand province during the past 15 years, the provincial police chief said on Monday. Addressing a seminar “police accountability” here, Maj. Gen. Aqa Noor Kentoz…
As many as 211 high and low ranking army officials have been introduced to the attorney’s office in southern Helmand province during the past two years on dereliction of duty charge, an official said on Saturday. Maiwand Military…
Four bomb-making factories have been destroyed by Afghan forces in Marja district of southern Helmand province, an official said Monday. The factories were destroyed in Pinzam Blak area of Marja district on Sunday night, Lt. Col. Mohammad Rassoul…
A man killed his wife and cut her body into pieces before dumping her remains in a well in the capital of southern Helmand province last night, police said on Sunday. Second police district chief Col. Haji Gran…
Local security officials on Saturday said the Taliban militants used civilians’ houses and mosques as their trenches in Nawa district of southern Helmand province. Two days back, Helmand security officials said they had launched operation to retake control…
The Boost Hospital in the capital of southern Helmand province has improved its services, attracting residents of neighboring provinces to bring their patients there, thanks to the Doctors Without Borders organization. Boost Hospital’s MSF head Claudio Miglietta on…
Afghan commando forces killed at least 10 civilians, mostly children, in a nighttime raid in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, the governor said on Monday. Hayatullah Hayat told a press conference here the Afghan army’s commando…
Nine members of a family have allegedly been killed during an operation in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, but local officials reject the claim as baseless. Residents of Greshk said they tried to place the victims’…
The governor on Saturday said the air force would hit vehicles smuggling precious stones and drugs in southern Helmand province. Hayatullah Hayat was addressing a meeting about accountability of departments at the governor’s house in Lashkargah, the provincial…
Soldiers say they have rendered a lot of sacrifices defending the Sangin district of southern Helmand province, lamenting the city’s surrender to the Taliban. Three days back, the Taliban militants claimed capturing the strategically located urban space from…
LASHKAR GAH (Pajhwok); Eight security personnel have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in a suicide car bombing in southern Helmand province, officials on Tuesday. The provincial police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News the suicide bomber detonated…
Three American soldiers were shot and injured by an Afghan soldier inside a base in troubled southern Helmand province on Sunday. Coalition security forces on the base killed the soldier to end the attack, the coalition said in…
An alleged suicide bomber has been arrested by National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel in southern Helmand province, the spy service said in a statement on Thursday. The provincial NDS department in a statement identified the alleged bomber…
Twenty-four militants have been killed, including a notorious commander, during joint airstrikes by Afghan and American forces in southern Helmand province, officials said on Tuesday. Another three Taliban gunmen were wounded in the joint air raids that pounded…
Thirty-two Taliban militants have been killed and scores of others wounded during separate lashes with security forces in southern Helmand province, the military said on Saturday. Lt. Col. Mohammad Rasool Zazai, 215th Maiwand Military Corps spokesman, told Pajhwok…
Father of the provincial Refugee Department head for southern Helmand province has been killed, police said on Saturday. The father of Naqibullah Zmaryal, Haji Zarif Shah, was in Bolan area of Lashkargah, the provincial capital, to visit his…
Security officials blame growing insecurity in southern Helmand province on administrative corruption and drug trafficking. Brig. Gen. Abdul Rahim Chakhansouri, 505th Bust Zone police commander, said besides militants, corruption in government departments also contributed to insecurity in Helmand.…
As many as 40 high level delegations from central capital Kabul The visits were mostly symbolic, they said, because members of the delegations only took group photos, made some promises and returned to the capital without doing anything.…
