KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- More than two dozen people were killed in a four insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday afternoon, Afghan authorities said. As the violence intensified, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Thursday morning outside one of the gates at Kandahar airbase, one...
A suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan killed six Afghan security officials, including a district police chief, during Friday Prayer in Ghaziabad District, a remote area of Kunar Province where there was an extensive NATO operation in October to clear the area of the Taliban. The bomber struck just outside a mosque where the officers had gone to...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight police officers were killed overnight at a hilltop checkpoint in the fourth episode in three months taking aim at the police in Helmand Province. One officer was missing after the attack, and police officials are investigating whether he betrayed his comrades to the Taliban. The attack came just a day after a suicide...
Helmand-provinsen (Pashto: هلمند), en af de i alt 34 provinser i Afghanistan. Helmand-provinsen ligger i det sydvestlige Afghanistan. Hovedstaden er Lashkar Gah. Helmand-floden gennemstrømmer provinsen, hvoraf store dele er ørken, skønt omfattende kunstvandingssystemer af såvel traditionel (se kareze) som mere moderne karakter er med til at tilvejebringe et bedre grundlag for opdyrkning af området. Der bor 745.000 indbyggere i provinsen.
Helmand-provinsen står for 20% af verdens opiumproduktion.
I januar 2006 angreb tropper fra NATO for første gang dette område, som regnes for Talibans højborg, dengang med deltagelse af 220 danske soldater. I efteråret 2007 var danske soldater involveret i nogle af de hårdeste kampe siden 1864.
I 2011 havde Danmark lidt over en bataljon, omkring 750 soldater, udstationeret i Afghanistan. Ca. 620 befandt sig i Helmand-provinsen ( RC(S) ). Fold ud