Sources: Washington Post
Two separate roadside bombings kill 13 civilians in Helmand and Ghor Provinces. Meanwhile, militants stop a bus in western Afghanistan, targeting Hazara passengers and killing three of them. 2021-05-20
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 Taliban attack on an Afghan military base in Sangin District, Helmand Province, kills at least 10 Afghan soldiers and injures 4 others. 2019-12-28
Twelve Afghan National Police officers are killed in a Taliban "infiltration attack" in the southern Helmand Province. 2017-02-28
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
At least two people are killed and 12 injured after a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in Helmand Province. 2016-05-14
A gunman in Afghan military uniform kills three U.S. soldiers in the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand. 2012-08-9
Eleven people are killed in Helmand province, Uruzgan province, Kandahar province, and Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. 2010-11-14
Security forces eliminated 25 Taliban militants in their former stronghold Nad Ali district of southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan. 2010-10-3