Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Mohammad Stanekzai LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Last week, the Afghan air force dropped its first laser-guided missile ...

When I was growing up in Washington, D.C., my family often dined at the Afghan restaurant Khyber Pass, where we fell hard for aushak. Each of us got our own platter of the dumplings, which were ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Helmand is one of the most active battlefields in Afghanistan. News reports from this southern province are mostly about Taliban suicide attacks and ambushes against ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan forces were fending off Taliban assaults on multiple fronts Monday, including the capital of southern Helmand province, where a car bomb killed at least 14 people. In the ...

The news came in a phone call from Afghanistan. Ten days ago, a suicide bomber tried to talk his way into a compound in Lashkar Gah where I had worked until last October. He blew himself up without ...

Since the ANDSF took on the security responsibility of Afghanistan in December 2014, the security situation in Helmand has further deteriorated. Despite the deployment of more than 30,000 ANDSF troops ...

In an apparent bid to bolster security in other parts of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan army abandoned a number of its bases in two hard-fought districts over the weekend, ...

After over a month of heavy fighting in Garmsir district, southern Helmand province, Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit settled down to the tedious routines of counterinsurgency. They ...

CHAH-E ANJIR, Afghanistan -- A small remote Afghan village looks a lot like a World War I front line a century ago. Uniformed Afghan forces and turbaned Taliban insurgents are now fighting over every ...

But we have cleared Helmand now, and we are holding Helmand. We are also finally starting to push into Kandahar, the neighboring province, the capital of the south, and, frankly, the initial home base ...

But international efforts continue to transform this troubled Afghan province from a war zone to a place of peace and development. With a large number of British troops and smaller contingents of ...