Topic: Lashkar Gah

At least three people were killed and 30 injured in an explosion near the governor's compound in the city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan ...
Three British nationals have been injured in an explosion in the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan, the BBC understands.. . The Britons, who...

Roadside bomb kills Afghan police chief

A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing a district police chief and two of his bodyguards, authorities said on Monday.The blast happened late Sunday as the group drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of troubled Helmand ...

Afghan bomb kills 11 children

Sixteen wedding guests, including 11 children, were killed Tuesday when a bus hit a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, underscoring the heavy toll paid by civilians in a decade of war.Another five people were killed in a suicide car bombing near ...

Suicide bomb, blast kill 18 civilians in Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan on Tuesday killed 16 civilians, most of them children, hours after a suicide car bombing killed two people and wounded dozens in a southern city pioneering a transition to Afghan security control.The ...

Five dead in car bomb near Afghan police HQ

A suicide car bombing killed five people and wounded two dozen others near a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, officials said.Mohammad Rasoul, a spokesman for the Afghan army, said three police were killed and three others wounded in the blast in ...

Four Afghan children dead in Taliban car bombings

Four children were among seven Afghans killed Saturday by two suicide car bombings in the country's volatile south, including one against police and soldiers collecting their pay.In Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, one blast struck near a bank where ...

Locals fear violence is up in Afghan handover town

It was the most volatile of the Afghan towns and districts passed from Western to local control last month, and residents of Lashkar Gah worry security has got even worse since handover.Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, was one of ...
By Abdul Malek. . LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - An air strike called in by NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan killed 12 children and two women...
Here is the release from the ICOS on its latest survey: Kabul, 13 May 2011 - Sixty-eight percent of men interviewed in five districts of...