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Lashkargah City blast kills one, injures five
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov 10 (ANI): A member of the police force was killed and five injured after an explosion rocked Bolan area in Lashkargah City, Helmand province.
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Eight terrorists belonging to Pak's LeT group killed in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 22 (ANI): At least eight militants belonging to Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group have been killed in airstrikes conducted in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan.
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Pentagon sends additional Marines to Afghanistan's Helmand to counter
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI):Additional U.S. Marines have been dispatched to Afghanistan to strengthen its forces in the violent Helmand province where Taliban has increased their attacks.
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Afghan forces repel multiple Taliban attacks on TAPI project in Gereshk
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Aug.5 (ANI):The Afghan Security and Defense Forces have successfully repelled the multiple attacks of Taliban fighters who targeted a bridge in the district and create a hurdle to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline (TAPI) pipeline project in Gereshk dis
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Gunmen storm market in Afghanistan's Helmand after Car Bomb attack ki
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August4 (ANI): Intense fighting is underway between security forces and insurgents after a group of armed men stormed a money exchange market in the center of Gereshk district in the southern Helmand province on Friday morning.
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Six policemen killed in Taliban attack in Helmand
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 2 (ANI): As many as six policemen were killed and three were wounded in a Taliban attack on a check post in Nawa district of southern Helmand on Tuesday night.
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Taliban claims chief's son killed, Afghan says, they are in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 22 (ANI): The Afghan government officials has dismissed the claims by the Taliban that the elder son of group's chief Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada has died while carrying out a suicide attack in Greshk district of Helmand province.
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U.S. airstrikes mistakenly kill 16 Afghan policemen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Gereshk [Afghanistan], July 22 (ANI): At least 16 Afghan policemen were mistakenly killed and two others injured in U.S. airstrikes in southern Helmand province's Gereshk district.
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18 Taliban attackers killed in a massive operation after a suicide attack
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 20 (ANI): Around 18 Taliban insurgents killed in a massive air and ground operations by Afghanistan security forces in the Helmand province of Afghanistan early Thursday.
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Operation underway to re-capture Helmand 's Nawa district in Afghanis
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 15 (ANI): Afghan security forces have launched a military operation
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Rouhani's criticism of the dam project amounts to violation of the He
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 7 (ANI) : Civil society activists from Afghanistan and residents of different provinces have reacted after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that dam projects in Afghanistan are damaging the environment.
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Afghanistan: 43 Taliban insurgents killed in Helmand airstrikes
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 3 (ANI): 43 Taliban insurgents were killed and 20 others were wounded in airstrikes and ground forces operations on Sunday night in Afghanistan.
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