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NEWS ABOUT: Kandahar

Kandahar stories: 23 news summaries

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 Kandahar Slips Back 
 Into Taliban Hands 

Generals give up on local officials and call for more troops

Sep 14, 09 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Taliban forces using massive car bombs and threatening letters have slowly retaken Kandahar, reports the Washington Post. The Taliban's resurgence in Kandahar, its spiritual home, presents a complex problem for US and UN forces, both scrambling to find enough troops to stabilize the city. In many ways, Kandahar stands for... More »

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Taliban • Kandahar • NATO troops

 Karzai Set Up 800 
 Fake Poll Sites, 
 Say Diplomats 

Ten times as many ballots as voters, say Western officials

Sep 7, 09 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai's supporters set up hundreds of fake polling stations that delivered hundreds of thousands of votes to the Afghan president, even though nobody voted there, diplomats tell the New York Times. The incumbent's team created as many as 800 fake sites, existing only on paper. Karzai allies also occupied... More »

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Afghanistan • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • Pashtun • Kandahar • ballots • Ahmed Wali Karzai • Afghanistan election

(Newser) - A Taliban spokesman today denied that the group was behind a huge explosion that killed at least 43 and injured 65 more in Kandahar last night. Roughly 40 shops were destroyed in the blast, which went off outside a wedding hall just as people were breaking their Ramadan fast. Rescue... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Kandahar • terrorist • Ramadan • terrorist attack • terror attack

(Newser) - A busy, bloody day in Afghanistan:
  • Five car bombs detonated simultaneously in Kandahar, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 50, reports the AP.
  • That follows news of a blast in southern Afghanistan that killed four US troops, bringing to 41 the number of American deaths
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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • US troops • Kandahar • casualties • Afghanistan war • Abdullah Abdullah

US Preps Plans to Take Out Taliban Poppy Crop 

Offensive aims to cut off Afghan insurgency's financial lifeline

Apr 29, 09 2:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - American commanders in Afghanistan are preparing a huge assault on the Taliban's opium-growing heartlands this summer, reports the New York Times. Taking out the opium crop is key to NATO strategy, and commanders expect casualties on both sides will be high as the militants stand their ground to defend the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Kandahar • opium • poppies • Helmand province • Afghanistan war • Zabul

Unbowed by
Attack, Afghan Girls Return
to School

School thrives despite horrific assault

Jan 14, 09 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Last November in Kandahar, the southern Afghan city in the grip of the Taliban, 15 students and teachers were sprayed with acid on their way to a girls' school. The attack was the culmination of a Taliban-supported campaign to keep women from education, but the girls and their teachers have... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • school • Kandahar • girls • students • acid

 US Strike Kills 40 
 at Wedding: Afghans 

President Karzai angry; military investigating incident

Nov 5, 08 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A US air strike killed 40 civilians at a wedding party Monday, the Afghan government said today. The US said it was investigating the incident, but would not verify any attack or death toll, the New York Times reports. A Kandahar province official said US forces were fighting with the... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • civilian casualties • US military • wedding • Kandahar • airstrike

 Afghanistan's
 Insurgency
 Endures

Attacks highlight security decline

Aug 14, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The insurgency in Afghanistan is mushrooming, and targeting the refurbished highway that provides a weak connection between the country's ethnic halves, the New York Times reports. A series of deadly attacks in June has exposed the tribulations of the United States' 6-year-old effort to defeat the Taliban. More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • insurgents • United States • Kabul • IED • US troops • Kandahar • Highway 1 • insurgency

 Afghans Launch
 Assault on Taliban 

Kandahar is next militant target

Jun 18, 08 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan and NATO troops launched a huge offensive against the Taliban today, Reuters reports, starting with an air and ground assault on a valley in southern Afghanistan. Bolstered with hundreds of fighters freed in last week’s prison break, the Taliban has taken several villages in Arghandab, and has its... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Kandahar • Afghanistan war • Arghandab

 Taliban Jailbreak Frees 1,200 

Inmates spill into streets after suicide blast at Kandahar prison

Jun 13, 08 11:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taliban fighters blasted into Kandahar's main prison last night and freed about 1,200 inmates, including 350 Taliban, the New York Times reports. Prisoners, including Taliban leaders, quickly flooded the streets and scattered into nearby villages. “It is very dangerous for security," a Kandahar politician said. "They... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • prison • Kandahar • prisoners • jail

Afghan Cops Blow Up Huge Hashish Stash

260 tons of narcotics destroyed after history's biggest drugs bust

Jun 12, 08 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan police have made what is believed to be the biggest narcotics bust in history, the Guardian reports. Some 260 tons of hashish—worth $400 million—was found buried in trenches near the Pakistan border. The narcotics haul, which would have made as much as $14 million in profits for... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • drugs • drug trafficking • cannabis • Kandahar • counternarcotics

Ex-Detainee Describes
Gitmo Tortures

He was beaten,
hung from ceiling,
shocked with electricity

May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was... More »

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War on Terror • torture • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • Kandahar • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation

Canadian Convoy Bombed in Afghanistan

Attack precedes Canada's vote on unpopular operation

Mar 12, 08 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide attack on a Canadian convoy in Afghanistan killed a civilian, injured at least one soldier, and set ablaze a nearby home less than half a mile from the Canadian base of operations in Kandahar. The Taliban took credit for the attack, which comes just as Canada is about... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Canada • suicide bomber • bombing • Kandahar • convoy • Canadian parliament

New Afghan Bombing Kills 37

Target was a NATO convoy

Feb 18, 08 7:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Terrorists targeting a Canadian NATO convoy today in southern Afghanistan killed at least 37 when they detonated a massive car bomb in a crowded marketplace, the Guardian reports. At least 30 more were wounded, including three soldiers. Like yesterday’s bombing, which claimed 100 lives and was the deadliest since... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Canada • bombing • Kandahar

80 Killed in Afghan Bombing

Worst Taliban suicide attack since 2001 hits spectators at dog fight

Feb 17, 08 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A suicide blast today killed at least 80 in a crowd of spectators watching a dog fight in the Afghan city of Kandahar. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but local authorities believe it was the work of the Taliban, which has a large presence in the area, BBC reports.... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • suicide bombing • bombing • Kandahar • dogfighting

Rice Pays Surprise Visit
to Kandahar

Bid to reassure Afghan president of NATO commitment

Feb 7, 08 5:58 AM CST
(Newser) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart David Miliband made a surprise visit today to Kandahar, the dangerous city in southern Afghanistan that diplomats rarely visit. Rice and Miliband will meet Hamid Karzai later today to try to reassure the Afghan president that his country remains a... More »

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Afghanistan • Condoleezza Rice • Hamid Karzai • David Miliband • Kandahar

Afghan Women Protest Yank Kidnapping

Rare gathering of 500 rallies for female
aid worker

Jan 29, 08 5:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 500 Afghan women, many wearing burqas, assembled in an extremely rare mass protest in Kandahar to protest the kidnapping of American aid worker Cyd Mizell. "Her kidnapping is against our culture and tradition," said the director of the women's organization in Kandahar. Some of the women had... More »

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Afghanistan • kidnapping • Kandahar • Muslim women • Cyd Mizell

Afghans Search for Abducted American

Taliban remains silent as police hunt for missing aid worker

Jan 27, 08 10:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Afghan police are searching for an American aid worker and her driver kidnapped yesterday in Kandahar. Police have tightened security in the southern city, AFP reports, blocking traffic and questioning Afghans in the area where Cyd Mizell was seized. Nobody has claimed responsibility; a Taliban spokesman refused to say whether... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • kidnapping • Kandahar • aid workers • Cyd Mizell • hostage

Afghan Gunmen Kidnap Female US Aid Worker

Woman, 49, was wearing burqa when stopped near Kandahar

Jan 26, 08 8:39 AM CST
(Newser) - An American woman has been kidnapped in Afghanistan along with her driver, the AP reports. The woman, 49, worked for an aid organization and was wearing a burqa when she was stopped near the southern city of Kandahar. Police are searching for the kidnappers, whom a local governor called “... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • insurgents • kidnapping • Americans • Kandahar • aid workers

Canadian Panel Urges
Afghanistan Troop Pullout

Miffed Canadians say allies need to step up

Jan 23, 08 3:42 AM CST
(Newser) - A government-appointed panel has recommended that Canada withdraw from a combat role in Afghanistan next year unless European allies shoulder more of the burden, reports the Financial Times. "Canadian resources, and Canadians' patience, are not limitless," said the panel, which was established to defuse the debate that has... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Canada • Kandahar

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