Kandahar News

Eighty Taliban militants have laid down their weapons and joined Afghanistan's police force, accepting a government amnesty aimed at ending a vicious insurgency, police said on Saturday. In a ceremony at police headquarters in the eastern city of Herat, the...

Time for truth about torture After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin...

T he question of whether Canada handed over large numbers of Afghans – possibly innocents – to face abuse and torture is not just one of morality or law, but about making the mission a success. So says the Canadian...

The military announced Saturday that Canadian troops had moved into the northern limits of Nakhonay, a town of around 2,000 people in the heart of the volatile Panjwaii district. Continued Below This marked a new phase of an operation dubbed...

H ell hath no wrath like a Conservative government scorned — just ask the string of bureaucrats, advocates and citizens whose reputations have felt the fury. Diplomat Richard Colvin is the latest to face a backlash from Tory benches.

Canadian soldiers keep watch during a joint foot patrol with U.S. and Afghan National army in Arghandab district, Kandahar province October 31, 2009. Afghanistan – The taking of Haji Baba will be a game of inches, likely setting the tone...

Aaron Aamot was a son and a brother, a friend and a soldier, and Saturday, Nov. 14, he was finally home. Aamot was laid to rest Saturday in the Haynie Cemetery in Custer, more than a week after he was...

The militants had come from neighbouring districts of Shah Walikot and Khakrez to conduct Saturday night's attack, and fled from the area before police reinforcements were deployed. General Gholam Ali Wahdat, police commander for the southern region, also confirmed the...