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Afghan sgt. leading U.S. troops to a school got lost and can't read a map. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2009— -- On a recent evening Staff Sgt. Jeff Schaffer watched closely as a plain ...
Missing in Kandahar, a city spinning in enjoyment of the ordinary, is all the leadership that has vanished. This was the Taliban's stronghold, and though it has fallen to a coalition of militias ...
Much of Obama's Afghan strategy will focus on the county's second largest city. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2009— -- Zarghoona Kakar knew early on that the local government and foreign ...
Kandahar is the power base from which the Taliban took over the country in the 1990's. And it remains the largest city in Afghanistan's south, where the insurgency has been the strongest. INSKEEP ...