Helmand Blog - Afghanistan

Helmand Blog - Afghanistan has moved to a new location! The new look Helmand Blog has now officially replaced this site. All the posts on here have been migrated and, as always, new posts are g...

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Soldiers from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards (1 SG) and The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) have been working jointly with Afghan National Security Forces to keep traffic moving along a key road in ce...

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By Tom Newton Dunn, Political Editor, The Sun DAVID Cameron today reveals he is on a lightning mission to reform Britain – while his Coalition is still riding the crest of its popularity. The ...

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Two Territorial Army volunteers from Jersey Field Squadron have swapped civilian life on the channel island for the heat and dust of Helmand province, and are now working with the regular Army ...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/jersey-reservists-swap-island-life-for.html

BBC News South Asia Website LASHKAR GAH, THE CAPITAL OF AFGHANISTAN'S HELMAND PROVINCE, WAS A WAR ZONE WHEN THE BBC'S BILAL SARWARY VISITED FOUR YEARS AGO. UPON HIS RETURN HE DISCOVERS IT COMPL...

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Afghan police have seized enough explosive chemicals to make hundreds of homemade bombs after finding it hidden in paint and pickle boxes in the back of a lorry in southern Kandahar. Ammonium n...

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Following on from the post last week, BFBS Reports utilised Combat Camera Team imagery to support their latest report.

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/video-sayedabad-flag-raising.html

IT IS WITH SADNESS THAT THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE MUST CONFIRM THAT SAPPER ISHWOR GURUNG FROM 69 GURKHA FIELD SQUADRON, 21 ENGINEER REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN ON FRIDAY 13 AUGUST 2010. ...

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BFBS Forces News interviewed Dr Liam Fox during his recent visit to Afghanistan.

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By Dexter Filkins, New York Times Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of American and NATO forces, began a campaign on Sunday to convince an increasingly skeptical public that the American-led...

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It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Rifleman Remand Kulung, from G (Tobruk) Company, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), attached to the Danish Battlegrou...

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It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Sapper Darren Foster of 21 Engineer Regiment was killed on Friday 13 August 2010. At 0653hrs on 13 August 2010 whilst manning a ...

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Following the success of Operation Tor Shezada in southern Nad-e Ali, where ISAF forces cleared numerous IEDs from key routes and installed new checkpoints, the Afghan National Security Forces ha...

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It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Lieutenant John Charles Sanderson of 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) , attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha R...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/lieutenant-john-charles-sanderson-dies.html

In the last of an intimate set of portraits, Lance Corporal Sophie Wright tells how she she recreates home comforts on the frontline and about the small pleasures she misses while serving in the ...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/inside-afghanistan-lance-corporal_13.html

By Caroline Crowe and Mark Mason, The Sun CELEBRATED as the Lady With The Lamp for her tireless work helping injured soldiers in the Crimean War, she remains the most famous nurse in history. An...

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In the fourth of an intimate set of portraits, Lance Corporal Laura Roberts describes how it feels to be one of the only single women on a base of hundreds of men. To visit the Telegraph TV Webs...

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The UK is to send two additional Royal Air Force Tornado jets to Afghanistan, the Defence Secretary has announced on a visit to British forces serving there. Dr Liam Fox, on his second visit to ...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/extra-raf-jets-announced-as-defence.html

Lance Corporal Rob McInerney is currently working at the forefront of counter-IED operations in Afghanistan piloting the ‘Flying Robot’, which is part of the Talisman counter-IED system. Tal...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/flying-robot-pilot-helps-find-ieds-in.html

In the third of an intimate set of portraits, Lance Corporal Ashton Mulligan describes how she has mixed feelings about going home while she works in one of the world’s most dangerous environme...

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Over 2,000 well-wishers welcomed RAF Tornado crews and engineers home from Afghanistan on Friday when they paraded through the streets of their local town of Swaffham, Norfolk. The parade, led b...

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By Jane Mingay (camera) and Roland Hancock (edit) Telegraph.co.uk TV In the second of an intimate set of portraits, Sergeant Carly Lambert describes the difficulty of leaving her three-year-old ...

http://helmandblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/inside-afghanistan-sergeant-carly.html

Members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have raised the country’s flag above the town of Sayedebad, which is now under ISAF and ANA control. Sergeant Sheraga from the Afghan National Army sa...

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Afghan security forces from the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan Border Police (ANBP), Afghan Civil Order Police (ANCOP) and ISAF soldiers from the 1st Battalion T...

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Afghan security forces from the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan Border Police (ANBP), Afghan Civil Order Police (ANCOP) and ISAF soldiers from the 1st Battalion T...

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