Helmand, Afghanistan News

CHIEF of the General Staff, General Sir Peter Wall travelled to Lashkar Gah, where he visited the headquarters of Task Force Helmand and spoke with the Commander of British Forces in Helmand, Brigadier Rupert Jones, who updated him on the role of his troops in support of Afghan security forces.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan , June 19 -- Five Afghan Local Police members were shot dead by their comrades overnight in the country's southern province of Helmand, the latest in a series of attacks when Afghan forces turned their weapons against Afghan or coalition forces, an official said Wednesday.

As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

Policemen inspect the site of the suicide car bombing in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan yesterday.

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Damaged parts of a car lie on a road at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Helmand province southern Afghanistan, Monday, June 17, 2013.

The chief was not seriously hurt but three officers were wounded. Helmand province spokesman Ummar Zawaq says Police Chief Mohammad Nabi Ilham was on his way to his office in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah when the car bomber struck early Monday.

The command of UK forces in Helmand shifts from Lashkar Gah, where it has been since 2006, to the massive Camp Bastion air base.

Director Nagieb Khaja talks about his documentary " My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone ."

Vanity Fair 's Michael Joseph Gross explains how America's bid to stop the 20th-century threat of nuclear proliferation may have unleashed a unexpected 21st century threat-cyber-war! Then the director "The Attack" talks about the film, about a Israeli-Palestinian surgeon whose life is shattered after he discovers secrets his wife has kept from him.

A soldier killed in Afghanistan on Monday listed Pensacola as his home of record when he joined the service in 2003, but officials had few updated details about him.

The Department of Defense reported Wednesday that 31-year-old Jessie L. Thomas Jr. of Pensacola was killed while serving in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Thomas died June 10, 2013, in Helmand, Afghanistan, while supporting combat operations with Operation Enduring Freedom.

There is no doubt the United States Army has suffered greatly the last couple months taking more casualties than any other branch of the service as four more have paid the ultimate price since last Monday's post .

Nagieb Khaja, a Danish journalist of Afghan origin, travels to Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in Afghanistan.

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Three Fort Campbell soldiers were killed in Afghanistan this week in separate improvised explosive device attacks.

A special forces soldier from Delaware and stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky has been killed in fighting in Afghanistan.

Soldier who admitted sexually abusing Afghan boy is fined just 1,000 as colleague who racially insulted civilian is demoted - and both are allowed to keep identities hidden His colleague, a former private, who has now left the Army, was fined 1,000 after he admitted indecent conduct towards a young boy while on patrol in Helmand province.

A soldier from 1st Battalion Welsh Guards rests following intense fighting with Taliban insurgents in Helmand, Afghanistan during Operation Panchai Palang 2 .