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Afghan withdrawal would be folly | Robert Fox
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
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Afghan withdrawal would be folly Afghanistan's complex patchwork of success and failure is all a world away from the metropolitan commentators At the base of the 1st Battalion 5th US Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Garamsir in south Helmand they have...
Tags: Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, Helmand river, Marja, Nawa, Taliban, Simon Jenkins, Washington, Kandahar, Helmand Province, Gereshk, Garmsir, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar
Stunning Photo Captures Marine Escaping Afghan Blast
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility Marine runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan. The moment a U.S. Marine ran to safety as an explosion killed two of his comrades in Afghanistan was caught on camera. The Improvised Explosive...
Tags: U.S. Marine, Helmand Province, Marine Corps, Helmand River
Afghan police 'kill 4 Taliban militnats'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility The violence erupted Monday after a group of Taliban attacked a police convoy near Khask Rod district, sparking hours of gunfire. Nimruz officials told Press TV that Afghan troops suffered no casualties. Taliban spokesman, Qari Yusef Ahmadi, however,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Helmand River, district police, EU Election Observation Mission, wardak province, U.S, roadside bomb, Wardak, police chief
Marines push militants out of Taliban region
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility CAMP LEATHERNECK: U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in — only to discover that the militants had slipped out, dressed in women's burqa...
Tags: afghanistan, Helmand Province, Northern Afghanistan, S Afghanistan, U.S, Helmand River, 2001, American, US Marines, Taliban
Marines launch Afghan counter-insurgency operation
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday morning, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military's new counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, Helmand River, U.S
MoD blamed over Marine's death
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lance Corporal Matthew Ford, of 45 Commando, was shot by his own colleagues as they stormed a Taliban fort in southern Helmand province. Tragically, following the withdrawal from the fighting, it was discovered that L/Cpl Ford's body had been left behind...
Tags: friendly fired, Afghanistan, Helmand river, British, Lance Corporal Mathew Ford, Royal Navy Board, Lance-Corporal Mathew Ford, taleban fort
US Marines fighting Taliban in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Marine in Afghanistan says his unit is having some success fighting back the Taliban in Helmand province. While Canadian troops are gradually shifting their focus to reconstruction efforts, the Marines are in Afghanistan purely to fight...Pete Petronzio,...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S, Kandahar Air Field, canadians soldiers, Kandahar Airfield's Role, Helmand River, Pete Petronzio, southern afghanistan, marines expeditionary, 24th marines
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