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    An internally displaced boy from Helmand province carries a bowl as he walks at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in...

    An internally displaced boy from Helmand province carries a bowl as he walks at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in... View Photo »

  2. The operations were launched in Fulad area of the Washir district and the Hyderabad area of the Grishik district in Helmand province in which 27 Taliban were killed and three others were jugged.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 3 weeks ago
  3. Getty Images logo Getty Images 11 hours ago
    An internally displaced girl from Helmand province looks on at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in Afghanistan, one of...

    An internally displaced girl from Helmand province looks on at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in Afghanistan, one of... View Photo »

  4. Taliban fighters shot down a helicopter and killed all its passengers in Khanashen Dewalak area near Garmsir in the southern Helmand province
    SOURCE: Press TV 1 month ago
  5. FIREFIGHT in Helmand Province
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  1. An internally displaced boy from Helmand province carries a bowl as he walks at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in Afghanistan, one of its victims,...
  2. An internally displaced girl from Helmand province looks on at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul on May 21, 2012. Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape the future of the war in Afghanistan, one of its victims, 12-year-old Aleema,...
  3. DOVER, DE - MAY 09: A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case with the remains of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. John Huling past a saluting U.S. Army carry team on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base May 9, 2012 in Dover, Delaware. Assigned to 7th Engineer Support...
  4. DOVER, DE - MAY 09: A U.S. Army carry team salutes as the remains of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. John Huling are carried across the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base May 9, 2012 in Dover, Delaware. Assigned to 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary...
  5. A Marine Corps carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Sgt. John Huling, 25, of West Chester, Ohio, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. , Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Huling died May 6, 2012 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
  6. LaShana Douville, wife of fallen airman Tech. Sgt. Daniel Douville, is comforted by her son Daniel Douville Jr. during the Explosive Ordnance Disposal 43rd Annual Memorial Service at the Kauffman EOD Training Complex at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. , Saturday May 5, 2012. Eighteen names...
  7. Members of the Idaho Army National Guard Honor Guard carry the casket of Sgt. Chris Workman following the memorial for the fallen soldier on Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Eagle, Idaho. Workman was recently killed alongside three other soldiers in a helicopter crash in the Helmand Province of...
  8. HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND - MAY 02: Comrades carry the coffin of Private Anthony Frampton as it leaves Huddersfield Parish Church on May 2, 2012 in Huddersfield, England. Private Frampton of the 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed alongside five comrades when their Warrior...
  9. HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND - MAY 02: Margaret Charlesworth the mother of Private Anthony Frampton sits in the hearse beside his coffin as the funeral cortege arrives at Huddersfield Parish Church on May 2, 2012 in Huddersfield, England. Private Frampton of the 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire...

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  1. The operations were launched in Fulad area of the Washir district and the Hyderabad area of the Grishik district in Helmand province in which 27 Taliban were killed and three others were jugged.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 3 weeks ago
  2. Taliban fighters shot down a helicopter and killed all its passengers in Khanashen Dewalak area near Garmsir in the southern Helmand province
    SOURCE: Press TV 1 month ago
  3. Yesterday (Thursday) evening Taliban fighters shot down a helicopter and killed all its passengers in Khanashen Dewalak area near Garmsir, southern Helmand province
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  4. Police during operations against Taliban militants in Kajaki district on Saturday arrested a Taliban senior leader namely Mullah Janan alias Syed Ghulam who had served as shadowy deputy governor of Helmand province
    SOURCE: SINA English 1 month ago
  5. The top U.S. commander in Helmand Province and his British deputy were with the U.S. Marines that an Afghan man tried to run down as they waited for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arrive in southern Afghanistan, defense officials acknowledged Friday, proving the incident to be more serious than had b...
    SOURCE: MSNBC Blogs 2 months ago
  6. Foreign armies, they will be grouped as one ... And, of course, in Helmand Province you have got some of the most fervent and some of the most dangerous of Taliban gangs. You would expect to see reprisals levied at whomever, whichever nations are there under the NATO banner.
    – David Livingstone SOURCE: Voice of America 2 months ago
  7. It was a powerful bomb which had been planted recently. This area close to Kandahar's Maywand district is a major Taliban criss-crossing terrain - the Taliban fighters have been moving from this area from Kandahar's Panjwai to Maywand and then to Helmand province - they also would go from Helmand into K...
    SOURCE: Wiltshire Times 2 months ago

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