Helmand, Afghanistan News

A CHARITABLE soldier is currently undertaking an energetic triple challenge while on duty in Afghanistan to help raise money for a worthy cause.

A Marine officer who's just returned home to Westlake Village from Afghanistan says the war there is a success that Americans should be proud of.

An Afghan policeman stands guard on a wall at the scene of a bomb blast in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb.

A MASSIVE Taliban bomb blast killed a young South Yorkshire soldier in an area which was meant to be clear of devices.

A SOLDIER'S fiancee was told of his death on the front line moments after opening a Valentine's card from him, his family revealed yesterday.

A DESERT Rat shows the chilling evidence of how close he came to death in a firefight with the Taliban.

SOLDIERS serving in Afghanistan have cycled and trekked the distance to York to raise funds for a little boy with a life-threatening health condition.

Under the gun of political pressures against the war coupled with new strains on the NATO coalition, the United States announced an accelerated timetable for ending its combat role in Afghanistan and switching to a training mission with Afghan troops in the lead.

AN RAF reservist from Bourne End who set up life-saving clinics and medical training for 17,000 innocent Afghan's living in a war zone, has been called an 'inspiration' at a national awards ceremony.

Firefighters try to put out an early morning fire Thursday at Selwyn College Preparatory School in Denton, Texas.

USMC Sgt. Major John Gilstrap takes aim at a target as Benny Whitehead, Eddie Whitehead, Sgt.

Pictured, Afghan policemen investigate at the scene of a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah Helmand province on January 26, 2012.

A suicide car bomber who took aim at a Western convoy in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed four Afghan civilians and injured more than 30 other people, including three British nationals who were involved in reconstruction work, Afghan and British officials said.

A suicide car bomber attacked a Nato vehicle in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah yesterday, killing at least four civilians and wounding 31 others including a foreign woman, an official said.

NO REPORTER NARRATION Three Afghan civilians were killed and 31 people wounded, among them three foreigners, in a car bomb attack in Lashkar Gah city, in southern Helmand province, on Thursday , said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

A 17-year-old soldier lied about his age to so he could fight the Taliban on the frontline in Afghanistan - despite not being old enough to play war game Call of Duty.

In this United Nations handout photo, Jan Kubis, center, the new special representative of the U.N. Secretary-General to Afghanistan speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan.

An Afghan police official inspects the scene where a truck was hit by a roadside bomb on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, recently.

An investigation is under way after a soldier from 200 Signals Squadron died at a Nato patrol base in the Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand, Afghanistan.

The Now Zad District Women's Center in Helmand province, Afghanistan officially opened for business during a ceremony at the facility, Jan.