Sources: Washington Post
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
According to a United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan inquiry, 18 civilians in Helmand Province were killed in coalition air raids last Thursday and Friday, with locals and Afghan officials claiming that the death toll is higher. 2017-02-13
Five people are killed in a Taliban attack on Afghan Member of Parliament Mir Wali's home in Helmand Province. At least three security guards and two civilians were killed in the assault; Wali and others were injured. The gunmen are holding a number of occupants hostage. 2016-12-21
David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist and a 2015 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award, and Afghan journalist and translator Zabihullah Tamanna are killed when the Afghan army unit they were accompanying comes under fire near Marjah in Helmand Province. 2016-06-5
At least ten Afghan police officers are killed in a Taliban attack on checkpoints in Helmand Province. 2015-05-24
Ten Afghan soldiers are killed by Taliban fighters in southern Helmand province. 2012-08-27
Afghanistan: A bomb kills three NATO soldiers in east Afghanistan. An explosion in a cemetery in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, in Afghanistan kills two people. A NATO soldier is killed by an Afghan police officer. Three New Zealand soldiers are killed in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan when the convoy in which they were traveling was hit by an improvised explosive device. 2012-08-19
A gunman in Afghan military uniform kills three U.S. soldiers in the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand. 2012-08-9
NATO says that it is investigating whether its troops killed or wounded up to seven Afghans in operations in southern Helmand Province. 2010-08-12