17 May 12 - An incinerator to dispose of unserviceable small arms ammunition has been delivered to Afghanistan ahead of schedule and well under budget.
16 May 12 - Lieutenant General Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, here reflects on recent visits to Helmand and eastern Afghanistan, and gains made by ISAF over the past year.
15 May 12 - A wounded Royal Navy medic who saved the lives of four colleagues after they were seriously injured in Afghanistan by a grenade attack in 2011 received a Military Cross from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.
13 May 12 - Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand province, where British forces operate, has now entered the transition process whereby responsibility for security will be handed over to Afghan forces.
12 May 12 - Corporal Brent John Mccarthy, Royal Air Force and Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, serving as part of an advisory team were providing security for a meeting with local officials near Patrol Base Attal in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, when they were shot and killed by members of the Afghan Police Force.
8 May 12 - Members of the UK's Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Task Force in Helmand are stepping back from their front line role to develop the Afghan National Army's bomb disposal capability.
4 May 12 - Corporal Andrew Steven Roberts and Private Ratu Manasa Silibaravi, both of 23 Pioneer Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, were attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Battlegroup, serving as part of Combined Force Burma, when they were killed in an indirect fire attack on Forward Operating Base Ouellette, in the northern part of Nahr-e Saraj district, Afghanistan.
1 May 12 - A former Royal Artillery Gunner and veteran of Afghanistan has just returned from the country again after this time working there as a reporter.
30 Apr 12 - The Afghan National Army's first major operation this spring has resulted in the clearance of improvised explosive devices from a 25-square-kilometre area and the recovery of three weapons caches.
With the Welsh Guards' recent arrival in Helmand province to mentor and advise the Afghan National Police, a fund has been launched back home to support the troops and their families.
29 Apr 12 - 5th Battalion The Rifles handed over responsibility for security in Nahr-e Saraj (South) in Helmand province to 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.
27 Apr 12 - Guardsman Michael Roland, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was fatally wounded during an exchange of small arms fire whilst deployed with his Company on a three-day operation to disrupt insurgent activity in a contested area in the north of Nahr-e-Saraj District, Afghanistan.
26 Apr 12 - The way in which UK forces will achieve a reduction of 500 Service personnel in Afghanistan by the end of this year has been announced today by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
We remain on track to complete the transition process by the end of 2014, Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament today.
Three Sunderland brothers, currently serving in Afghanistan's Helmand province, have been reunited for a short time on the front line.
25 Apr 12 - Royal Engineers from 26 Engineer Regiment, working for Task Force Helmand, have completed a route upgrade for Bost Airfield, south of Lashkar Gah district centre.
24 Apr 12 - UK soldiers from the Brigade Advisory Group moved into position last week to support the start of the first major Afghan National Army offensive of the spring.
Afghan police have taken control of a newly-built checkpoint in Babaji, Helmand province.
23 Apr 12 - Afghan National Army and UK soldiers have seized a substantial amount of explosives and other bomb-making equipment in Afghanistan.
Grenadier Guards deployed to Afghanistan passed on their personal birthday congratulations to their Colonel-in-Chief, Her Majesty The Queen, this weekend.
A British soldier was recently saved from a Taliban bullet that hit his torso by one of his standard issue body armour plates.
20 Apr 12 - RAF Tornado GR4 jets from 617 'The Dambusters' Squadron have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack after a marathon seven-hour flight.
19 Apr 12 - Around 200 soldiers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Task Force gathered at Waterbeach Barracks to receive their Afghanistan campaign medals.
The UK will provide £70m a year to fund the Afghan National Security Forces after British combat operations end in Afghanistan in 2014, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced.
18 Apr 12 - Sapper Connor Ray, 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, from wounds sustained in the blast from an improvised explosive device in Nad 'Ali, Afghanistan, on Wednesday 11 April 2012.
Combat medics from 1 Medical Regiment have been presented with their Operational Service Medals after returning from a demanding tour in Afghanistan.
16 Apr 12 - Royal Anglian soldiers have completed reception, staging, onward movement and integration training after arriving in Afghanistan.
13 Apr 12 - A military human resources clerk who worked to bridge the gap between ISAF troops and Afghan women in Helmand has received her Afghanistan campaign medal.
12 Apr 12 - Royal Engineers who will help develop road networks and canal and irrigation systems in Afghanistan have finished their final training exercise.
11 Apr 12 - Two Army dog handlers have been providing security for British forces in Helmand for the past month by searching vehicles entering ISAF bases for weapons and explosives.
10 Apr 12 - 12 Mechanized Brigade has taken command of Task Force Helmand in Afghanistan, officially marking the start of Operation HERRICK 16.
8 Apr 12 - Corporal Jack Leslie Stanley, of the Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish), died in hospital in Birmingham on 8 April 2012 from wounds sustained in Afghanistan on 3 February 2012.
3 Apr 12 - With 50 per cent of the Afghan population living in areas of transition, it's all change. But what exactly is 'transition'? Report by Ian Carr.
29 Mar 12 - Progress towards greater security has moved apace in Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province thanks to the combined efforts of British and Afghan forces.
Britain and Afghanistan agreed to continue their defence relationship long beyond the end of combat operations in 2014.
27 Mar 12 - British troops in Nad 'Ali have helped Afghan forces take on more of the burden for security in the region, facilitating the process of transition.
26 Mar 12 - Sergeant Luke Taylor, of the Royal Marines, and Lance Corporal Michael Foley, of the Adjutant General's Corps (Staff & Personnel Support), serving as part of Task Force Helmand were shot and killed at the main entrance to Lashkar Gah Main Operating Base in Helmand Province by an Afghan National Army soldier.
23 Mar 12 - A total of 131 members of the Armed Forces have received honours and awards in the Operational Honours List of today's date.
Members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force have received some of the highest awards for gallantry in today's Operational Honours and Awards List.
22 Mar 12 - UK forces have helped members of the Afghan Uniform Police hold a party for hundreds of people in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
21 Mar 12 - Captain Rupert William Michael Bowers, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment was working alongside an Afghan security forces patrol tasked with disrupting insurgent activity in the Mirmandab region of Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, when he was caught in the blast from an improvised explosive device and killed.
20 Mar 12 - Nearly 1,000 British soldiers joined a major operation planned and led by Afghan security forces to clear insurgents from a Taliban heartland.
19 Mar 12 - A dawn raid by British and Afghan troops in Helmand province has struck a blow at the insurgency in Afghanistan.
18 Mar 12 - 12(B) Squadron personnel were reunited with loved ones after a four-month deployment to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.
14 Mar 12 - 'We will not give up on the mission in Afghanistan', Prime Minister Cameron said at a joint press conference with US President Obama.
12 Mar 12 - General Sir Peter Wall has said that despite the losses of the past week the commitment to the mission in Afghanistan is as strong as ever.
8 Mar 12 - Following the loss of six soldiers in Afghanistan this week, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond writes about why we are in Afghanistan and what is being achieved there.
Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards writes, following the loss of six soldiers in Afghanistan this week, that every person in uniform understands the importance of the mission with which they are charged.
British troops have run a course for female officers of the Afghan Uniform Police in improvised explosive device awareness.
7 Mar 12 - Afghans in Sangin want change, the outgoing Head of Helmand's Provincial Reconstruction Team, Michael O'Neill, here writes.
The commanding officer of a ground-holding battle group in Helmand province has praised the skills of his Territorial Army soldiers.
6 Mar 12 - Sergeant Nigel Coupe, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, Corporal Jake Hartley, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, Private Anthony Frampton, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, Private Christopher Kershaw, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, Private Daniel Wade, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, and Private Daniel Wilford, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, were killed in Lashkar Gah Durai region in an operational area on the border of Helmand and Kandahar provinces after their armoured vehicle was struck by an explosion.
A talented Fijian chef is using all of his culinary skills to boost the morale of soldiers serving in Helmand province.
5 Mar 12 - The Tongan Prime Minister has been greeted with a Sipi Tau war challenge during a visit to Tongan troops working with the RAF in Helmand.
Afghan cricketers knocked the British military for six when they met recently for a two-day clash in the heart of Helmand province.
After more than 15 months in Afghanistan, 854 Naval Air Squadron has returned home to Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall.
1 Mar 12 - Welsh soldiers deployed to Afghanistan have celebrated St David's Day in the traditional way by munching their way through whole, raw leeks.
28 Feb 12 - A joint Afghan and British team recently launched a pre-dawn raid on a Taliban compound, seizing an anti-tank weapon which had been used to target a British base.
27 Feb 12 - Elite Afghan policemen from Helmand's Provincial Response Company, trained by British troops, have uncovered a huge stash of weapons and drugs in two separate operations in a 48-hour period.
A British soldier's body armour saved him from a Taliban gunshot during a fierce fire fight in Helmand province recently, enabling him to shrug off the impact and carry on with the mission.
20 Feb 12 - Soldiers from 5th Battalion The Rifles have joined Afghan security forces in an operation to clear a key insurgent 'safe haven' in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
British Army divers have conducted a night-time diving operation in the Helmand River in Afghanistan in order to help with the development of irrigation and agriculture in the region.
18 Feb 12 - RAF personnel conducted numerous missions across southern Afghanistan from 12 to 18 February 2012. Here follows an operational update.
17 Feb 12 - Nearly 300 members of the Afghan National Army have taken command of a new patrol base in Lashkar Gah district, Helmand province, built with the assistance of UK forces.
15 Feb 12 - A British soldier has twice narrowly avoided serious injury in Afghanistan after being shot at on two consecutive days by Taliban gunmen.
14 Feb 12 - British soldiers from 2nd Battalion The Rifles have helped Afghan security forces in an operation to clear insurgents from an area close to Gereshk in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province.
13 Feb 12 - Senior Aircraftman Ryan Tomlin was killed by small arms fire whilst on a routine partnered patrol in the Nad 'Ali district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
11 Feb 12 - RAF personnel conducted numerous missions across southern Afghanistan from 5 to 11 February 2012. Here follows an operational update.
10 Feb 12 - British troops have used a NATO-funded project to provide winter blankets for their Afghan police colleagues working in checkpoints across Helmand province where the night-time temperature drops below zero in January and February.
A British Army officer currently deployed to Helmand province to advise the Afghan National Army is helping a top Afghan General learn English to help him better communicate with his British colleagues.
9 Feb 12 - For the first time since 2006 year-on-year violence levels decreased across Afghanistan in 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague said in the government's quarterly update on Afghanistan.
British soldiers have been helping to spread the influence of the Afghan Government in Helmand province by bringing its representatives together with local Afghan elders.
A ferocious two-day-long battle between the Taliban and British troops with their Afghan police partners has taken place following a dawn airborne raid to destroy insurgent improvised explosive devices.
7 Feb 12 - 12th Mechanized Brigade will replace 20th Armoured Brigade in April 2012 as the lead formation of British troops in Helmand province, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced.
Nearly 1,000 British and Afghan soldiers have taken part in a major operation to increase security around a vital town in Helmand province.
Soldiers from 5th Battalion The Rifles have helped district community councillors and local elders from a village in Nahr-e Saraj (South) get together at a 'shura' or meeting.
6 Feb 12 - Members of the RAF Regiment have found and destroyed a large cache of Taliban IED-making equipment in an operation conducted alongside Afghan and US forces.
3 Feb 12 - There has been various media speculation that British troops face only one more summer of major combat operations in Afghanistan after reports of comments made by the US Defence Secretary and French President.
1 Feb 12 - Snipers from the RAF Regiment used their skills and training to protect an Afghan family caught up in an attack by insurgents in Helmand province.
The once common sight of children flying kites in an area of Helmand province has returned after the Taliban, who banned the sport, were driven out.
31 Jan 12 - Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment and their Afghan police partners have taken on insurgents during high-tempo operations deep in Taliban territory.
30 Jan 12 - Soldiers from the Queen's Royal Hussars Battle Group and Afghan police joined forces recently to launch their first joint airborne operation in Helmand province.
28 Jan 12 - Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at Chequers, Mr Cameron's country residence, where they signed an enduring strategic partnership between the UK and Afghanistan.
British soldiers and their Afghan Army partners have discovered bomb-making equipment and ammunition after a local Afghan directed them to insurgent arms caches.
RAF personnel conducted numerous missions across southern Afghanistan. Here follows an operational update.
27 Jan 12 - Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung, 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed when his foot patrol to disrupt insurgent activity came under small arms fire in the Khar Nikah region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province in Afghanistan.
Taliban leader Mullah Omar's grip on the insurgency is loosening as coalition battlefield successes in southern Afghanistan help sow discord among the Taliban top ranks and weaken the organisation, a top US commander has said.
Teams of Defence Anaesthetists have won a top award for their work in Afghanistan.
26 Jan 12 - A spokesman for NATO-led forces said that 2011 had been a 'remarkably successful year' in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan and in the development of the Afghan security forces.
Two soldiers with the British Army's Theatre Equipment Support Battalion have been sharing wrenches with some of the finest maintainers from the 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province. Report by Sergeant Justin Shemanski.
24 Jan 12 - Signaller Ian Gerard Sartorius-Jones, 20th Armoured Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron (200), died at Forward Operating Base Khar Nikah in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Forces broadcaster Rachel Cochrane is making ready for her second tour in Afghanistan.
A Royal Auxiliary Air Force airman who set up life-saving medical centres for Afghan children caught up in the conflict has been described as an inspiration and his contribution to the local communities across Helmand as immeasurable.
19 Jan 12 - In his latest blog, Private Graham 'T' Thurston, a British soldier from 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, currently deployed to Afghanistan, gives an account of life in a checkpoint on the front line in Helmand province.
16 Jan 12 - NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Sir Simon Gass, gave a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute on the challenges ahead as Afghanistan prepares to take on responsibility for its own security by 2015.
13 Jan 12 - British soldiers and Afghan National Army warriors have helped a crucial school open its doors for the first time in Helmand province.
12 Jan 12 - Hundreds of Afghan schoolchildren met RAF personnel at an Open Day held by the Afghan Air Force at Kandahar Airfield.
10 Jan 12 - Soldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment have been undertaking regular patrols in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province to improve security for the local population.
9 Jan 12 - The Afghan National Army's newly-formed Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Team recently demonstrated their proficiency in front of the ANA's 3/215 Brigade Commander, General Sherin Shah, and Task Force Helmand Commander, Brigadier Patrick Sanders.
Analysts in Helmand are helping commanders see through the fog of war. Tristan Kelly reports.
7 Jan 12 - RAF, Royal Navy and Army Air Corps personnel conducted numerous missions across southern Afghanistan from 1 to 7 January 2012. Here follows an operational update.
6 Jan 12 - Members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment are currently augmenting other units in Afghanistan and playing an important part in operations while other soldiers from the regiment have recently been training for potential deployments.
As Nad 'Ali looks to a brighter future, Tristan Kelly reports from the former Taliban stronghold.
5 Jan 12 - A senior Taliban commander has been killed by an Apache helicopter strike during an operation conducted by British and Afghan soldiers to disrupt activity in an insurgent 'safe haven' in Helmand province.
Two Royal Engineers who helped deliver over 100 reconstruction projects during their deployment to Helmand recently returned from operations to spend their first Christmas as dads.
4 Jan 12 - Giant sacks, specially designed to transport fuel by air to the front line, have been delivered to troops in Afghanistan.
3 Jan 12 - A Ministry of Defence scientist has been awarded an OBE in Her Majesty The Queen's New Year's Honours List, in recognition of his world-leading armour protection work.
2 Jan 12 - Rifleman Sachin Limbu, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, of wounds sustained in Afghanistan in June 2010.
1 Jan 12 - British soldiers serving in Afghanistan have seen in the New Year by undertaking marathons at their bases to raise money for charity.