KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Even in this dusty, dangerous city long accustomed to violence, the killing last month of Abdul Majid Babai managed to shock. Babai, a well-liked writer and poet ...

Wednesday's blast took place at a government building in the heart of Kandahar city. Zalmai Ayubi, spokesman for Kandahar provincial governor, said one civilian also was killed and another ...

Both sides claim success after a day of fierce fighting in southern Afghanistan. LONDON, June 18, 2008 — -- Canadian and Afghan troops have swarmed into the countryside outside Kandahar ...

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 ...

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 ...

But here in Kandahar City, the linchpin of the U.S. military’s campaign against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, they had found themselves the victims of America’s Afghan allies.

Mohammad Sadeq returned to his home on the outskirts of Kandahar city this week to discover it had new occupants -- the Taliban. "They didn't even allow me to enter," he told AFP Tuesday at a camp ...

The mayor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday, officials said, just two weeks after the controversial and powerful brother of Afghan President ...

Both sides claim success after a day of fierce fighting in southern Afghanistan. LONDON, June 18, 2008 — -- Canadian and Afghan troops have swarmed into the countryside outside Kandahar ...