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Helmand Taliban fight

US Marines are back in Afghanistan's Helmand province for the first time since 2014

April 29, 2017
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Helmand for years was the centerpiece of the US and British military intervention in Afghanistan — only for it to slip deeper into a quagmire of instability.

US Marines are back in Afghanistan's Helmand province for the first time since 2014
Afghan boys look a damaged window of a shop after a suicide attack in west of Kabul, Afghanistan May 25, 2016.

The new Taliban leader has more experience issuing fatwas than negotiating peace

May 25, 2016
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The new Taliban leader has more experience issuing fatwas than negotiating peace

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