Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Kandahar--the birthplace of the Taliban insurgency--experienced yet another destabilizing blow today when a suicide bomber hiding explosives in his ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- The Taliban pushed into the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province on Thursday, triggering fierce clashes and sending all government officials fleeing from ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan’s capital and launched a ... including capturing Herat and Kandahar, the country’s second- and third-largest ...

History shows that whoever secures Kandahar, Afghanistan's historic capital, controls the rest of the country. It is the home province of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and most of the Taliban ...

Stanley A. McChrystal, spoke of a “slow-rising tide” of security measures in Kandahar province — not an outright bid to seize the city that is its capital. In recent weeks, Western military ...

The loss of Ghazni — which sits along the Kabul-Kandahar Highway — could ... government forces hoped to hold onto the capital of Helmand province. WATCH: Afghan security forces teeter on ...

and elections have been postponed indefinitely in Ghazni province, where a four-day Taliban siege last month devastated the capital city. Despite the lack of violence in Kandahar on Saturday ...

Panjwai’s near collapse and the growing threat to Kandahar city are partially the consequence of the death in 2018 of Gen. Abdul Raziq, who had been the province’s police chief since 2011.

Songs praising the beauty of Kandahar once echoed in the streets of its capital. But today's violent ... The competition and uncertainty in Kandahar Province has major implications for the ...

Whoever controls this province controls the drug source ... Unlike the cities of Kandahar or Herat, or even the capital of Kabul, Lashkar Gah has functioning street lights. The relative affluence ...

The Taliban and their allies were poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their vital capital. Operation Medusa would center on the Panjwayi Valley, a dense region filled with towering marijuana ...