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Himalayan snow cover drops sharply, hits 20-year low; plains may feel the impactSnow cover in the Hindu Kush Himalaya has reached its lowest point in over two decades. This marks the fourth consecutive year of weak snow...- An Afghan province bans all media from showing images of living things to comply with Taliban lawsAfghanistan's Helmand province has prohibited media from displaying images of humans and animals, complying with Taliban's morality laws. T...
- Afghanistan: Nine people killed due to floods in HelmandIn a statement, the Taliban-appointed head of information and culture in Helmand said that the incident first happened on Thursday night in...
- Taliban deny reports of US airstrikes in Helmand, say they detonated mines"The rumours that indicate an airstrike was conducted in Shurab of Helmand and that it inflicted casualties, are not true. However, old min...
- Afghanistan: Artillery explosion kills five children in Helmand provinceThe artillery exploded as children were busy playing with it. Member of former provincial council Abdullah said that two wounded are under ...
- Commandos deployed as Afghan forces battle Taliban for control of citiesFighting raged in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah, where the Taliban launched coordinated attacks on the city centre and its priso...
- United States warplanes help Afghan forces fend off Taliban offensive"The heavy US air strikes against the Taliban positions stopped them from advancing towards Lashkar Gah," said Atiqullah, a local governmen...
- Thousands of Afghans flee homes as fighting erupts after United States pulloutAfghan forces pushed back insurgent attacks on multiple checkpoints in the past 24 hours in the province of Helmand, where the US military ...
- Taliban launches huge Afghan offensive after deadline for United States pullout"There was a thunderstorm of heavy weapons and blasts in the city and the sound of small arms was like someone was making popcorn," Mulah J...
- Roadside bombs kill five, wound seven civilians in AfghanistanNo one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Afghanistan has seen a nationwide spike in bombings, targeted killings, and ...
- Three killed in Afghan army helicopter crash, say officials"The helicopter was shot down by our Mujahideen in Washer district of Helmand province," a spokesman for the group, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, sai...
- United States military defends air strikes that Taliban says violate Doha agreementThe Taliban launched a major offensive in the southern province of Helmand in a bid to take its capital, prompting U.S. air strikes in supp...
- Afghan defence minister Asadullah Khalid flies to embattled Helmand after Taliban gainsThe fighting in the province, where U.S. and British troops for years fought to clear Taliban from a string of poppy-growing districts, com...
- Two Afghan military helicopters in southern Helmand province collide, 9 soldiers killedThe two Soviet-era Mi-17 helicopters crashed due to technical problems while taking off in Nawa district, the Afghan Defense Ministry state...
- US forces hit Taliban with airstrikes in Helmand province to support Afghan security forcesThe Taliban "need to immediately stop their offensive actions in Helmand Province and reduce their violence around the country," Leggett sa...
- US hits Taliban with air strike: Military spokesmanNews of the airstrike in southern Helmand province -- the first in 11 days -- came hours after US President Donald Trump told reporters he ...
- Situation in Afghanistan remains challenging: USUS and Afghan governments agree that the best way to ensure lasting peace and security in Afghanistan is through an Afghan-led and Afghan-o...
- Britain ends 13-year war in AfghanistanThe UK today handed over its last base in Afghanistan to the Afghan forces, marking an official end to the 13-year-long combat operations t...
- Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civiliansAt least 10 Afghan civilians were killed and several injured Thursday in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Helmand, officials ...
- BBC Afghan journalist killed by Taliban: ministryThe initial findings of a government investigation indicate the Taliban killed a young Afghan reporter for the BBC who was found shot dead ...
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