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Taliban insurgents seize control of the strategic town of Sangin in the southern Helmand Province after a year-long battle with Afghan security forces.
2017-03-23

A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city.
2016-10-10

A U.S. service member becomes the first U.S. military combat casualty in Afghanistan since January 2016 when he is killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) while on patrol near the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. Another American service member and six Afghan soldiers were also injured in the blast.
2016-08-23

Taliban forces overrun the Sangin District in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province following clashes with Afghan security forces which left dozens dead. Taliban militants have reportedly surrounded the local police compound with around 170 officers trapped inside the compound, according to a local official.
2015-12-21

A gunman in Afghan military uniform kills three U.S. soldiers in the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand.
2012-08-9

A suicide bomber kills at least two people in the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
2011-09-27

Two British soldiers from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards are killed fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
2011-03-24

An Afghan official claims that a NATO air strike killed about 25 people in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
2010-10-25

Security forces eliminated 25 Taliban militants in their former stronghold Nad Ali district of southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan.
2010-10-3

NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province.
2010-02-13