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 ...

2001-12-19 04:00:00 PDT Kandahar, Afghanistan-- Like most streetwise Afghans, Hayatullah has often heard the fantastical tale of how Mullah Mohammed Omar and his Taliban rose to power. Five years ...

This past summer, two assassinations paralyzed the southern Afghan city of Kandahar with fears of a power vacuum. In the first incident, President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai ...

The Taliban’s dramatic recapture early Friday of Kandahar — the group’s birthplace and onetime redoubt of its late spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar — marks a full-circle moment in the ...

The top commander in Afghanistan says securing the Kandahar region will take longer than planned. General Stanley McChrystal says the crucial operation will carry into the fall, instead of ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Before Sept. 11, 2001, this remote, sand-swept border city in southwestern Afghanistan was the seat of power of the Taliban, the militant Islamic regime headed by the ...

“Kandahar,” starring Gerard Butler, is the sort of textureless action thriller that sounds like it’s been musically scored by a subwoofer. The bass never stops booming as grizzled men frown ...

The only people who won’t be on his tail are those looking for a good action film — the stupefyingly sluggish “Kandahar” isn’t it. For his third collaboration with the director Ric Roman ...

Check out the trailer for Kandahar, an upcoming action movie starring Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel, and Elnaaz Norouzi. In Kandahar, Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), an ...

KABUL, April 6 (Reuters) - The main spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said ...

1 Workers prepare grapes for raisin production in Kandahar on September 11. The region, once famous for its pomegranates and grapes, has exported 10,000 tons of raisins worth $32 million from the ...