This video shows a wide river landscape flowing through agricultural land in Helmand River Valley, Afghanistan. The river ...

(Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in opium poppy-producing areas of the Helmand River valley on Thursday at the start of a major new offensive Washington hopes ...

COMBAT OUTPOST HANSON, Afghanistan -- A turkey trot it was not. The U.S. Marines' top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting ...

(For full coverage on Afghanistan, double click on [ID:nAFPAK]) (Adds links, details) July 18 (Reuters) - July has become the deadliest month for foreign forces in the eight-year-old war in ...