Sources: Washington Post
As many as 35,000 people flee their homes amid intense fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan troops in the southern Helmand Province. 2020-10-13
A bomb kills at least five people and injures another nine in Grishk District, Helmand Province. 2020-10-10
A series of U.S. airstrikes kills at least 30 Afghan civilians, including 16 children, in Garmsir District, Helmand Province. Additional civilians were left injured or buried in the rubble. The target of the strikes was a suspected Taliban compound. The United States' strategy aims to push the Taliban into talks. 2018-11-28
Two police officers are killed after a bomb explodes in Helmand Province. 2016-02-28
Several Sangin security force members are killed by Taliban suicide attacks, using captured military Humvee vehicles, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. 2016-02-13
The United States sends more troops to Afghanistan's southern Helmand province to shore up security forces who are facing sustained attacks from the Taliban. 2016-02-9
A United States Army soldier is killed and two others wounded in a joint operation with Afghan National Security Forces in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. 2016-01-5
One British soldier is killed and nine are wounded by Taliban insurgents in an attack on a patrol base with a truck bomb and small arms fire in Helmand Province, Nad Ali District, Afghanistan. 2013-03-26
An Afghan official claims that a NATO air strike killed about 25 people in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. 2010-10-25
A NATO helicopter crashes near Sangin in Afghanistan's Helmand Province under hostile fire with four troops being killed. 2010-06-9