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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Voters in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province went to the polls Saturday in legislative elections postponed for a week after an attack killed the province’s police chief. More than 4 ...

To my relief then, I realized I already had most of the answers. I was a civilian working at Kandahar Airfield, NATO’s largest base in southern Afghanistan. The parallels hit me sometime after ...

When America’s coalition invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they stormed Taliban strongholds such as Kandahar, obliterating the presence of local warlords and scattering anti-American sentiment across ...

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