Lashkar Gah News

Ghulam Wali Afghan, a lawmaker from Helmand, told The Associated Press that his relatives and constituents in Lashkar Gah have told him of bodies in the streets and residents hiding inside their homes, too afraid to venture out and collect the dead.

The assaults on two police post are the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Afghan security forces claimed by the Taliban.

The suicide attacker with a car bomb struck in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province of Helmand.

An Afghan official says the country's security forces have driven the Taliban out of a key district in southern Helmand province from where they had been threatening the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.

Taliban fighters now control most of Helmand, including areas in Lashkar Gah.

The assault Monday marked the insurgents` latest attempt to seize the capital of Helmand province, underscoring unravelling security as they expand their foothold across the opium-rich province. 

At least 11 civilians were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan`s southern province of Helmand on Saturday, sources said.

The Taliban stormed into Tarin Kot Thursday, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings as panicked residents scrambled to flee the capital of southern Uruzgan province, the latest city to be targeted by insurgents.

The latest attack took place in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, when US troops were accompanying Afghan soldiers, the Pentagon said in a statement, adding that six Afghan soldiers were also wounded.

At least eight people were killed on Wednesday after Taliban militants attacked government offices in Afghanistan`s Helmand province, an official said.

US aircraft carried out two attacks in Sangin, the district in southern Afghanistan overrun by Taliban insurgents this week, officials said on Thursday, as the battle for the strategic province of Helmand continued.

Afghanistan government forces have lost control of the centre of the town of Sangin in Helmand province after days of fierce fighting, media reports said on Wednesday.

Afghan troops have pushed the Taliban back from a key southern city after the insurgents seized an area on its outskirts earlier this week, an official said on Wednesday.