Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan News

In the second of our features with Territorial Army troops on exercise in Cyprus, WILL BAIN meets three Gwent men who are dedicated to serving their country.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader in the Baghlan-e Jadid district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province today, military officials reported.

BISMARCK A remembrance ceremony at the Memorial to the Fallen in the Global War on Terrorism will honor two additional North Dakotans who were killed in action last December.

Servicemen and women from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, which recruits from across the county and has its headquarters in Preston, paraded through Burnley yesterday.

A PROUD father held his son tightly in his arms as his Lancashire's soldiers were given a heroes' welcome in Burnley.

Lance corporal Lee Jones, who lives in Upton, had no previous military experience before joining the TA five years ago.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan , May 14 -- An explosion took place in Garmser district in southern Afghan province of Helmand Tuesday morning, causing casualties, a provincial government spokesman said.

The Taleban have denied massing forces for an attack on the Kajaki hydroelectric scheme in the southern Helmand province, at a time when responsibility for construction work and security is shifting from American to Afghan control.

Soldiers killed when the armoured vehicle they were travelling in hit an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan are to be repatriated.

Afghan police were accused of killing eight protesters at a demonstration on Wednesday as the U.S.-led coalition said it had opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct by NATO troops during an encounter with insurgents.

Residents of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province say nearly half the schools there remain closed, and they dispute claims by education officials that it would not be safe to reopen them.

An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and three other insurgents during an operation in the Lashkar Gah district of Afghanistan's Helmand province today, military officials reported.

SOLDIERS from Barrow who were involved in some of the fiercest fighting in the Afghanistan conflict were honoured during a medal ceremony yesterday.

THREE soldiers serving in Scottish regiments killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghan-istan have been named by the Mini-stry of Defence.

Beijing, May 1 : Taliban militants ambushed and killed three people including the peace chief negotiator in the southern Helmand province 555 km south of Kabul on Wednesday, a local official said.

Three British soldiers have been killed and several others injured after the heavily armoured vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a large roadside bomb while they were on a routine patrol in Afghanistan .

SOLDIERS from The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment are due to receive campaign medals tomorrow after their home-coming from Afghanistan.

Ninety-one soldiers from the 1st Battalion of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, which recruits from across Liverpool and the north west, were welcomed home by their families at a ceremony in Catterick, North Yorkshire, on Thursday.

In a short ceremony in front of British, Danish, Estonian and American partners at the headquarters of Task Force Helmand in Lashkar Gah, Brigadier Bob Bruce, commander of 4th Mechanized Brigade, formally handed over to Brigadier Rupert Jones, commander of 1st Mechanized Brigade.

As thousands of runners took to the streets of London, a soldier overcame sizzling heat to run his own marathon in Afghanistan - completing the 'struggle' on a treadmill, MSN News reports.