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Taliban flogging of 20 people brings back hardline practices of old regime
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The lashings allegedly took place at the sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of southern Helmand on Wednesday, Khaama Press quoted Mohammad Qasim Riyaz, a spokesperson for the governor's office as saying.
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Seven injured in blast in Afghanistan's Helmand province
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 12 (ANI): Seven people of the same family were injured as a device exploded in a house of Marja district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Friday, local media reported.
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Afghanistan: Three injured in blast in Helmand province
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 29 (ANI): Three people were injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, Pajhwok Afghan News has reported.
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US forces in Afghanistan hand over base to Afghan national army
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 2 (ANI/Xinhua): The U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Sunday handed over a key operating base to Afghan National Army in restive southern Helmand province, reported local media.
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Afghan airstrikes kill 8 terrorists in southern Helmand province
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Helmand [Afghanistan], February 23 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of eight terrorists have been confirmed dead as fighting planes struck a Taliban hideout in Nahr-e-Saraj district of the southern Helmand province on Monday, said an army statement released here on Tuesday.
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50 Talibs killed in operation by Afghan forces in Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Helmand [Afghanistan], January 2 (ANI): Afghan security forces killed 50 Taliban terrorists and injured eight others in an operation in Lashkargah city of southern Helmand and some other districts, the country's Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
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Afghan security official killed in roadside bomb blast in Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Helmand, (Afghanistan), December 27 (ANI/Sputnik): A local director of national security was killed in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province in a roadside bomb explosion on Saturday, local authorities said.
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Bomb blast in Afghanistan's Helmand province kills two, injures 4
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 19 (ANI): At least two civilians were killed and four others sustained injuries in a roadside bomb blast in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, Pajhwok Afghan News reported citing officials as saying.
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Afghan forces attack Taliban in Helmand province, deputy governor captured
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan Air Force has successfully carried out an attack on a group of Taliban terrorists in the southern Helmand Province, capturing the Taliban's local deputy governor, the Helmand Governor's press office said in a statement.
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4 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban car bomb attack in Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 7 (ANI/Sputnik): Four Afghan soldiers were killed and three others injured in a car bomb attack that the Taliban radical movement carried out against a security post of the National Army in the southern Helmand province, Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial
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2 civilians killed in roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Aug 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Two civilians have been killed as a roadside bomb went off in Nad-e-Ali district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, Ayub Omar Omari, the district chief, said on Sunday.
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2 people killed in roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 30 (Sputnik/ANI): At least two people were killed and one more person was injured in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, provincial governor's spokesperson Omar Zwaj told Sputnik on Tuesday.
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