Topic: Helmand Province
KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside mine killed 19 civilians and injured another 5 when it exploded in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Wednesday, the provincial government said in a statement.The victims were travelling in a van when the homemade bomb ...
A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing a district police chief and two of his bodyguards, authorities said on Monday.The blast happened late Sunday as the group drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of troubled Helmand province, ...
At least 1,228 US military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001As of Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, at least 1,228 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an ...
A bomb attack on a crowded market in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province Wednesday killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more, a NATO official told AFP.The bomb was probably a Taliban-style crudely made improvised explosive device, said the official with NATO's ...
Eight Afghan police were killed in a militant attack in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the same day eight policemen lost their lives in a similar attack in the country's north, the government said.The policemen were killed when rebels stormed their post in ...
A British soldier has died in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.. The soldier, from The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group, was killed on Thursday while travelling in a Viking vehicle near Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province.. The latest ...
A British soldier has died in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.. The soldier, from The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group, was killed yesterday while travelling in a Viking vehicle near Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province. "Our thoughts ...
A suicide attack in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Thursday killed 11 civilians and wounded 15 other people, including two policemen, police said. "A suicide attacker detonated his bomb-laden motorcycle near an ISAF and Afghan security forces' convoy in Girishk district, ...
At least 10 people, most of them police, were killed and more than 10 other people wounded in two separate suicide bombings in southern Afghanistan on Monday, police said.Nine bodies were taken to a hospital in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, ...
A suicide attack against police forces Monday killed 10 people including two policemen and wounded another 27 in southern Afghanistan, police said.A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body as he walked to a police vehicle in the crowded main market ...
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