This is the province which the US has declared victory in.
ISAF - International Security Assistance Force
ISAF Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force2012-09-S-021
For Immediate Release
**KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 15, 2012) — **Nearly 20 insurgents infiltrated the perimeter of Camp Bastion in Helmand province yesterday and attacked International Security Assistance Force personnel and facilities using small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide improvised explosive device vests. The attack, which began shortly after 10 p.m., killed two ISAF service members, wounded several and caused damage to multiple aircraft and structures along the base’s flight line.
ISAF forces reacted to the assault, returned fire and killed all but one of the known insurgents, defeating the attack. ISAF personnel wounded the remaining insurgent attacker, who is in ISAF custody and is being treated in a medical facility.
Camp Bastion is currently secure. ISAF personnel cleared the large base of attackers early this morning.
ISAF is in the process of fully assessing damages to aircraft and structures on the airfield.
However, ISAF has determined that despite the damage, there will be no impact to ground or air operations from Camp Bastion.
An investigation is ongoing.
Re: Base where prince Harry is posted attacked
This seems to be equivalent to pakistan’s PNS mehran attack.
Six US fighter jets destroyed in Prince Harry base attack - geo.tv
Six US fighter jets destroyed in Prince Harry base attack**KABUL: Six US fighter jets were destroyed and two significantly damaged when insurgents stormed a heavily fortified Afghan base where Britain’s Prince Harry is deployed on Friday, a NATO spokesman said.
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Lieutenant Colonel Hagen Messer conceded that the scale of damage, carried out by more than a dozen attackers dressed in US Army uniforms and armed with guns, rockets and suicide vests who managed to storm the airfield, was unprecedented.
Three coalition refuelling stations were also destroyed and six aircraft hangars damaged in the assault at Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, one of the toughest battlegrounds of the war, the US-led NATO force said.
In a statement, it said the attack was “well-coordinated” and carried out by around 15 insurgents, who were organised into three teams and who penetrated the perimeter fence. “The insurgents appeared to be well equipped, trained and rehearsed,” targeting fighter jets and helicopters parked next to the runway, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in the statement released nearly 36 hours after the assault began.