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 ...

Much of Obama's Afghan strategy will focus on the county's second largest city. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2009— -- Zarghoona Kakar knew early on that the local government and foreign ...

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 said their goal was to take control of Kandahar city, making the strike the most ambitious of a series of recent high-profile attacks on government installations. The attack came a day ...

Reporting from Kandahar, Afghanistan — Astride a black motorbike, he moves freely about the dusty, chaotic city he boasts the Taliban owns. “Our house,” he calls it. “Our home.” ...

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 ...

Kandahar - the province and the city - is a prize politically, economically and militarily. Most residents are Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, and Kandahar is the birthplace and ...

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.

Kandahar City, the provincial capital and spiritual home of the Taliban, was disorganized before coalition operations began in April, Carter said. The city's 1,500 Afghan police officers were not ...