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Wide-ranging Canada-U.S. operations in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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Taliban out of areas near Kandahar City. "(Brig.)-Gen. (Daniel) Menard has asked me to be open-minded about operations anywhere in our (area of operations) with our American partners," said Lt.-Col Jerry Walsh, who leads Canada's Alberta-based combat...
Tags: Kandahar City, American, Simon Bernard, U.S, NATO, Canadian, Afghanistan, combat troops, Menard, Kandahar, Afghan National Army, Kandahar International Airport, Politics, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, War in Afghanistan, Military of Afghanistan, Panjwaye District, War Conflict
Canada expands area of responsibility in south Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility Tuesday that Canada's area of operations in south Afghanistan will expand slightly to include a northern suburb of Kandahar City known as Arghandab. The development, first revealed to Canwest News Service on Nov. 18 by Canadian generals in Afghanistan,...
Tags: Kandahar City, south Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kandahar, War Conflict, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, Zhari District, Panjwaye District, Pashtun people, Cities along the Silk Road, Kandahar International Airport, Hamid Karzai, Military of Afghanistan, Kandahar Province
Governor of Kandahar brushes off assassination attempt
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 9:04PM EST T he Afghan-Canadian governor of volatile Kandahar province dismissed a bomber's assassination attempt against him as “nothing” yesterday as he celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha with relatives...
Tags: Taliban Karzai, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar City, Muslim Eid al-Adha, Mr. Karzai, president hamid, Afghanistan, assassination attempt, roadside bomb, muslim holiday, Kandahar, War Conflict, War in Afghanistan, Pashtun people, Taliban, Politics, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Tooryalai Wesa, Mohammed Omar, Islamism, Taliban insurgency, Hezbi Islami, Year of birth missing, Cities along the Silk Road, Bazaars, Kandahar Province, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, Year of birth uncertain, Islamic terrorism, Rahmatullah Raufi, Ashraf Ghani
Counter-insurgency experiment get blessing from Vachon
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 12 days ago
Credibility Jean Vachon's lost dog came back, the war against Taliban insurgents in Kandahar suddenly didn't seem so hopeless after all. Vachon's platoon had moved into Belanday, a small town southwest of Kandahar city, as part of an experiment by military brass...
Tags: Jean Vachon, Kandahar City, Kandahar Airfield, Patrice Chartrand, Daniel Menard, Canada, Jeremie Verville, Afghanistan, village approaches, Taliban, Kandahar, Panjwaye District, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict
Villagers welcome Canadian, Afghan troops after Taliban ousted
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 18 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan — Afghan and Canadian troops captured the Taliban-controlled village of Hajji Baba southwest of Kandahar City on Monday with hardly a shot being fired. Several hundred villagers came out to welcome the Afghan and Canadian soldiers as guests,...
Tags: Kandahar City, Canadian Forces, Afghanistan, Kandahar, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, Kandahar International Airport, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, Provinces of Afghanistan, War Conflict, Panjwaye District, Battle of Panjwaii, Operation Mountain Fury, Taliban insurgency, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Hamid Karzai, Pashtun people
Business 'a small door to the world' for Afghan women
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 20 days ago
Credibility The occasion was the grand opening of Kandahar Treasure's first shop, where soldiers and civilians at the sprawling base will be able to buy silk scarves and shawls and linen furniture covers made by nearly 250 women who work for the co-operative. "This...
Tags: Kandahar Treasure, Afghanistan, Kandahar City, Zuhra Durani, NATO, Kandahar, Bazaars, Cities along the Silk Road, Taliban, Luis Durani, War in Afghanistan, Islamism
Taliban prisoners on hunger strike in Kandahar
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 25 days ago
Credibility About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints. Mohammad Shafiq, one of the prisoners, says the inmates...
Some Afghans getting lost in translation and sent to jail: former adviser
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Innocent Afghans may have inadvertently been labelled as Taliban militants and sent to jail because of mistakes by Canadian military translators, says a former cultural adviser who served in Kandahar...In both cases, he says, he intervened to stop the...
Tags: Kandahar City
Slain Canadian soldier begins journey home
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canadian not on duty at the sprawling Afghanistan airfield. The 24-year old Calgarian was less than one week into his tour in Afghanistan when he stepped on a homemade landmine Friday while on a foot patrol southwest of Kandahar City. He was the second...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, canadians soldiers, Sapper Steven Marshall, IED, foot patrol, soldiers kills
Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The ever-present perils of the Panjwaii claimed the life of another young Canadian soldier today when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb while returning from a mission to root out Taliban command centres and weapons caches...Jonathan Couturier,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, Canadian, Jonathan Couturier, roadside bombs, Kandahar Airfield, Quebec City Le Soleil, soldiers kill, explosive device, Kabul, Kandahar
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