Pakistan launched strikes on Afghan military facilities and alleged terrorist hideouts in Kandahar, escalating tensions with ...

Thousands of U.S. and Afghan forces head to southern Afghanistan in the coming weeks for a military operation in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. The operation is intended to confront Taliban ...

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt outside a bank in the Afghan city of Kandahar early on March 21 as Taliban employees waited for their salaries. The bombing, later claimed by the Islamic ...

Besieged by suicide bombings, assassinations and a wider war just outside the provincial capital, Kandahar is a place that even war-hardened Afghans warned me about visiting. Kandahar was relatively ...

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, ...

Thousands of American troops are heading into southern Afghanistan for what is being called the most important operation of the nine-year war: bringing stability to Kandahar, the country's ...

U.S. and Afghan troops are stepping up the long-planned assault on Kandahar. The southern Afghan city and surrounding province of the same name, where the Taliban began in 1994 and which reportedly ...