Boys and young men take in the last of the day by the Helmand River in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Lashkar Gah came under serious threat of being overrun in late 2015 with Taliban insurgents mounting attacks from several locations outside the city. The city remains tense with the surrounding districts contested or under the control of the Taliban and with a bloody fighting season expected still to come.