Mohammad Ilyas Dayee is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan in Helmand.
As most of the Helmand’s limited healthcare resources have been diverted to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, authorities recorded 11 new polio cases in the first half of the current year across six of Helmand’s 14 districts.
Authorities in a restive Afghan province have launched a unique campaign to protect the region’s vanishing archeological treasures.
In recent months, Afghan government forces have made notable gains in some frontline Afghan provinces by reclaiming lost territories from the Taliban insurgents.
Nearly 18 years after the overthrow of the Taliban and tens of billions of dollars in aid, not a single girl has graduated from a high school in most districts of Afghanistan’s largest province.
Members of an Afghan peace movement are marching toward a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan to demand the hard-line movement and government forces commit to a lasting cease-fire.
Lawmakers and locals in a southern Afghan province say the illegal mining of gold and other precious minerals has dramatically increased in Taliban-controlled regions close to the border with Pakistan.
Esmatullah Himat, who heads the immunization program in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, says they discovered the latest polio case in the rural district of Nawzad.
The southern Afghan province of Helmand has turned into one of the most dangerous frontlines, where the Taliban and Afghan government forces now appear to be in a stalemate.
Few places can be more symbolic for demanding peace than a road divided between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban in one of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces.
Health officials in a restive Afghan province say three-quarters of children under the age of 5 are being denied a vaccination against the crippling infectious disease polio.
Hundreds of Afghan men and women are participating in an unprecedented protest to push the warring sides in Afghanistan to cease hostilities and conclude peace.
While preventing the Taliban from overrunning Helmand's provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, the air attacks have not reversed the insurgents’ momentum as they still control large swathes of the province.
Sangorian, a secret Afghan government militia, claims credit for defeating Taliban attempts to overrun Helmand’s capital, Lashkar Gah.
Afghan police are needed to protect people and government institutions in remote districts across Afghanistan’s largest province, Helmand. Instead, they are being deployed to protect senior officials and lawmakers in the regional capital, Lashkar Gah.
Tens of thousands of civilians are returning to ruined houses and devastated livelihoods in Nad-e Ali. With the aid of U.S. forces and airpower, Afghan forces are slowly reclaiming lost territories in Helmand.
Hundreds of young Afghans are franticly cleaning the field after building a cricket pitch under the starry sky.
A bomb disposal squad comb the dusty streets of a southern Afghan city for hidden explosives and booby traps.
A battle in a remote district in southern Afghanistan is likely to shape the future of the struggle for the country’s largest province.
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