KABUL, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan government has launched the reconstruction of a major highway in the southern province of Kandahar, local media outlet Tolonews reported on Tuesday.

Since the war began, this southern city and surrounding countryside have been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan. It has witnessed some of ...

The Taliban's new police chief in Kandahar squints, steely-faced, as he mentions he "fought face-to-face" against the Canadians on the front lines of Panjwaii. "They came here to invade Afghanistan, ...

WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — In the make-or-break struggle for Kandahar, birthplace of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency, U.S. commanders will try to pull off the military equivalent of brain surgery ...

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 ...

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style — at T ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Since the war began, this southern city and surrounding countryside have been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents” springboard to retake all of Afghanistan.

KANDAHAR, AfghanistanKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style – at T.G.I.

KANDAHAR, AfghanistanKANDAHAR, 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 ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Since the war began, this southern city and surrounding countryside have been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Since the war began, this southern city and surrounding countryside have been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan.