Qayum Karzai, who brought baby pumpkin in garlic yogurt to The Helmand restaurant he founded in Mount Vernon and who once ran for president of Afghanistan, died of a heart attack Thursday at his ...

The Navy will name its next amphibious assault ship in honor of the Marines, Navy corpsmen, allies and partners who served and died in Helmand province, Afghanistan, the Navy secretary announced ...

Last month a suicide bomb at a mosque killed the province's deputy governor KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN)-- A militant mullah and his two children were killed when a bomb he was making in his southern ...

WASHINGTON — The next America-class amphibious assault ship will be named after the Helmand province campaign during America’s 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced ...

Afghan troops said the area was clear of friendly forces. It wasn't, and as many as 17 local policemen were killed by a US airstrike that followed.

Fighting raged Thursday in Helmand after Afghanistan rushed military reinforcements to beat back Taliban insurgents advancing on the besieged capital of the southern poppy-growing province, as ...

(Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in opium poppy-producing areas of the Helmand River valley on Thursday at the start of a major new offensive Washington hopes ...

U.S. Marines have returned to Afghanistan's Helmand Province with a small training force. They are hoping a new Afghan general will lead his... In Helmand, Afghan General Fights Taliban 'Cancer' With ...

Scotland's Scott Meenagh is targeting a first medal at his third and final Winter Paralympics, 14 years on from losing both ...

KABUL, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have seized over 1,000 kg of illicit drugs, including 266 kg of hashish, during a search operation in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province ...

The town of Now Zad in Helmand has turned around faster than anyone expected. NOW ZAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 10, 2010 — -- Now Zad is a town again. In just two short months the small farming ...

(Reuters) - Washington has sent 8,500 Marines to Afghanistan's restive southern province of Helmand to reinforce overstretched British forces in the face of a growing Taliban-led insurgency, part of a ...