The map below shows the location of Chaman and Kandahar. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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 ...

Kandahar. Ancient crossroads of Central Asia. Home province of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and the site from which Osama bin Laden began to prepare the Sept. 11 attacks. Epicenter of the fight ...

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 ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The operation that American and coalition forces are planning for Kandahar in southern Afghanistan won’t look like D-Day, the top commander there ...

“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 ...

LONDON — In the postcards of the mind, it is the starkest of all the images of Kandahar, dating back more than 20 years to the period immediately after Soviet troops withdrew from the city ...

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" drops viewers into the heat of the Middle East as CIA operative Tom Harris (Gerard Butler) is first seen sabotaging an Iranian nuclear facility. Roman (Travis Fimmel), wants Tom to take ...