WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The United States plans to launch a new military operation later this year to seize Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan from Taliban control, a senior Obama ...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. Special Forces and heavy bombers dropping 2,000-pound bombs on Taliban command and control ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban ...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Industrialists in southern Kandahar have called for the relocation of Kochis (nomads) who have settled on 500 acres of land designated for the provincial industrial park.

A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a female Canadian soldier and wounded four other troops, the Canadian military said Tuesday. Trooper Karine Blais was killed Monday when the troops' ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed the mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Wednesday, a further blow to stability in the southern city still reeling from the assassination two weeks ...

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, southern ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.

A little over a year ago, Kandahar province, like much of southern Afghanistan, was overwhelmed with Taliban fighters and underpatrolled by NATO troops. U.S. forces pushed into areas under Taliban ...

Apparently abandoning his fight-to-martyrdom stance, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has agreed to surrender the remaining areas of Afghanistan under his control, officials on both sides said ...