In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia fires a heavy machine gun during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
In this photograph taken on March 25, 2021 an Afghan Commandos soldier stands guard as an Afghan Air Force Black Hawk helicopter takes off at the...
Security personnel and onlookers stand at the site of a blast along the roadside in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province on November 12,...
British Prime Minister David Cameron meets British soldiers based at Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province on July 18, 2012. Cameron arrived in Afghanistan...
Marines board a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft headed to Kandahar as British and US forces withdraw from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck...
In this picture taken on March 28 women wait for their turn at a mobile clinic for women and children set up at the residence of a local elder in...
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia sits outside an outpost in the village of Mukhtar on the...
Policeman stands guard at a road checkpoint as an internally displaced family flees from the ongoing fighting between Afghan security forces and...
In this photograph taken on March 28 members of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia take position during an ongoing fight with Taliban insurgents...
Royal Air Force Sgt. Alison Moore of the 15th Psychological Operations Group records a radio message with an Afghan interpreter at the British army...
In this picture taken on March 28 baby Bilal - who suffers from severe malnutrition, pneumonia and cleft lip - rests next to his mother Rozia , who...
Taliban Special Forces Badri 313 Units offer prayers in the Lashkar Gah city, on December 02 2021 in Helmand, Afghanistan.
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia holds empty cartridges during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
Army Col. Paul Calbos walks through an opium poppy field on April 1, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Colonel...
Army convoy drives on April 4, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. One U.S. Soldier and one American DynCorp...
Young Afghan girls giggle as a British soldier from 16 Air Assault Brigade walks past during a patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, 16 May 2006....
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos take positions during a combat training exercise at the Shorab Military Camp in Lashkar...
Police trainer for the American security contractor DynCorp stands guard as the provincial governor Mohammed Daoud and a new police commander pass by...
Abdullah, age 8, holds a soccer ball as a police trainer for the American security contracter DynCorp stands by at a school June 8, 2006 in Lashkar...
Afghan relatives grieve as they gather outside of the Ali Abad hospital, after gunmen targeted Shiite Muslim pilgrims inside of the Kart-e-Sakhi...
Members of the Afghanistan National Army patrol the streets 24 February 2006 of the southern town of Lashkar Gar. Afghanistan has "huge problems" and...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown closes his eyes as a helicopter picks up dust and sand as it passes during a visit to Shawqat forward operating...
This photograph taken on July 22, 2022 shows men and boys standing around food stalls in the streets in Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province.
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales looks through the window of a British military helicopter enroute to Lashkar Gah on March 25, 2010 in Afghanistan....
This photograph taken on October 6, 2016 shows Bashir, a relative of a "bacha bazi" victim, a teenage boy, during an interview with AFP in Lashkar...
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to Afghan National Army soldiers at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and Gereshk on December 6, 2010 in...
British Prime Minister David Cameron smiles as he arrives at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and Gereshk on December 6, 2010 in Helmand Province,...
British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to the Commander of the Joint Aviation Group Captain Shawcross RN after inspecting a "MERT" medical...
British Prime Minister David Cameron surveys a nearby village from the top of a sangar observation point at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and...
Soldier drives a bus ahead of handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines...
In this photograph taken on October 6, 2016 Afghan men offer prayers in Lashkar Gah of Helmand province.
Villagers watch as a convoy of the Afghan Eradication Force returns to base after plowing opium poppy fields on April 3, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in the...
Helicopter from the American security contractor DynCorp provides air support as members of the Afghan Eradication Force plow cut opium poppies on...
In this photograph taken on April 10 an Afghan woman sits along a poppy plantation on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province. - The...
In this photograph taken on August 27, 2017 Afghan Commandos transport a colleague feigning an injury on a stretcher as they participate in a combat...
Lashkar Gah, AFGHANISTAN: In this file photograph dated 17 May 2006, British soldiers from 21 Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing...
An Afghan wounded girl receives treatment at the Ali Abad hospital after an attack by gunmen inside the Kart-e- Sakhi shrine in Kabul on October 11,...
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron talks to British soldiers during a visit to Camp Bastion on December 16, 2013 near Lashkar Gah, the provincial...
British soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade go on a night patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, 14 May 2006. British...
Afghan Graduate Patrol men stand in a line after meeting British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Helmand Police Training Centre near Lashkar Gah...
British soldier from the 16 Air Assault Brigade is seen through his door window on a night patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, southern...
British soldier gives lessons to the Afghan National Police at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 26, 2008 in Lashkar Gah,...
British army officers and soldiers work in the Operation Room at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 25, 2008 in Lashkar...
Maps are checked as British army officers and soldiers work at the British army base Task Force Helmand Headquarter on July 25, 2008 in Lashkar Gah,...
Woman in a burqa carries a child past an armed civilian contractor from the private company "Armored Group" in the city hospital during a Provincial...
British Army Reverend Lt.Col. Nicholas Cook, Chaplain to the Forces from the Royal Army Chaplains Department celebrate the Sunday Mass in the tent...
An Afghan security personnel carries an injured civilian after a suicide bomb attack that targeted foreign military forces in Lashkargah city,...
Afghan residents walk as smoke rises from the direction of a suicide bomb attack that targeted foreign military forces in Lashkargah city, capital of...
An Afghani policeman looks out to the horizon whilst on patrol in the mountains surrounding the Helmand Rver valley in southern Afghanistan 24...
British soldier from the 16 Air Assault Brigade is seen through a window during a patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, 13 May 2006. British...
In this photograph taken on August 28 an Afghan National Army soldier assists a wounded colleague as they walk along a corridor in Afghan military...
In this photo taken on July 21 Breshna sits on a hospital bed with her four-month-old twins Subhania and Subhan in the malnutrition ward at the Boost...
Marines board a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft headed to Kandahar as British and US forces withdraw from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck...
British army soldier stands guard while his unit stopped on patrol June 8, 2006 in Lashkar Gah in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The...
In this photograph taken on August 28 an Afghan National Army soldier holds a plastic gun while clearing a road during a training exercise to deal...
In this photograph taken on August 28, 2017 a wounded Afghan National Army soldier recovers in a ward after receiving treatment in an Afghan military...
British Prime Minister David Cameron attends a carol service with British, Danish and Bosnian soldiers on December 20, 2012 in Helmand Province,...