Helmand Province

Saturday 8 June 2013

kabul: A suicide bomber has detonated a small truck loaded with explosives in southern Afghanistan, killing seven Georgian soldiers.

Bodies of Afghan bomb soldiers repatriated

Thursday 9 May 2013

Soldiers killed when the armoured vehicle they were travelling in hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan are to be repatriated.

The message from the Taliban

Sunday 5 May 2013

NATO security commanders fear that the Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province, which left three British soldiers dead and six wounded last week, will mark the beginning of a new phase of violence.

Afghanistan's future still in doubt after years of war

Friday 3 May 2013

ASKED during a television discussion this week whether the war in Afghanistan has been worth it, former UK Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram gave the forthright reply "of course".

Soldiers killed were in Army's 'safest' vehicle

Thursday 2 May 2013

THE Ministry of Defence is to review the use of its heavily armoured vehicles after three Scots soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.