The man showed me some photos of his son, the last ones taken of him. A few days later I met with a group of mullahs in a district north of Kandahar and mentioned this boy’s death. During our ...

By 2008, Taliban fighters were routinely staging bold and bloody strikes inside Kandahar. That triggered renewed U.S. engagement in the Pashtun heartland, including areas north of Kandahar.

KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - At the base of the Shah Maksud mountains in northern Kandahar province beams an eye-catching structure visible from well over a mile away. This bright, teal ...

Image The Taliban say prayers Nov. 1, 2001, near Chowkar-Karez, Afghanistan, approximately 50 miles north of Kandahar.Credit...Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images In many of the areas that the Taliban ...

At a combat outpost north of Kandahar city, Army Capt. Jeffrey McKinnon peers over a wall of sandbags and points to a location 100 yards away, a tangle of grapevines, trees and brush. "We found an ...

July 6, 2010 • In Zhari, north of Kandahar city, U.S. troops recently teamed up with an Afghan district governor to get to the bottom of a string of grenade attacks. U.S. officers say it is the ...

Jennie Green is the director of North American operations for the Arghand Cooperative in Kandahar.

The most recent attack wounded nine coalition troops at the American outpost dubbed Forward Operating Base Frontenac, in the Arghandab River valley, north of Kandahar. Kirby told reporters Tuesday ...

He responded to questions from members of the audience at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Major Rusty Bradley, an Army Special Forces team leader who recently finished ...

FARGO, N.D. – A North Dakota man has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his role in the theft of copper wire from Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors say 41 ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A key area just north of Kandahar city city has become a major battleground between the Taliban and coalition forces including Canadians, military authorities said Wednesday.