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Canada expands area of responsibility in south Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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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
Obama's Afghan "surge" sets sights on Kandahar
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 2 days ago
Credibility A year ago, mobile phones worked just fine in the pomegranate orchards and vineyards along the Arghandab river on the outskirts of Afghanistan's second largest city, Kandahar. That was before the Taliban took over the west side of the river and blew...
Tags: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Canada, U.S, War Conflict, War in Afghanistan, Politics, International Security Assistance Force, Taliban, Human rights abuses, Taliban insurgency, Panjwaye District, Kandahar International Airport, Human rights in Afghanistan, Migrant worker, Employment, Islamic terrorism, Stephen Harper, Skilled worker, Human migration, Immigration, Foreign worker, Social Issues, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Afghan National Army, Immigration law, Islamism, Military of Afghanistan, Kandahar Province
A season of massive casualties
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility But now the frightened Afghan boy is back on the gurney at the same field hospital in festering Zhari district outside Kandahar...The doctor radios to Kandahar Airfield, begging for a helicopter – and the request is denied. Ten days earlier the medevac...
Tags: Louie Palu, Zhari, Afghanistan, Kandahar Airfield, zhari district, Canada, Kandahar, Afghan National Army, Kandahar International Airport, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, Military of Afghanistan, Kandahar Province
Governor of Kandahar brushes off assassination attempt
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 4 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
Military Analysis: In 3 Tacks for Escalating Afghan War, a Game of Trade-Offs
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 8 days ago
Credibility If Mr. Obama limited any additional American troops to 10,000 to 15,000, the military would deploy them largely as trainers, with some reinforcements likely in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual home. The neighboring, and opium-rich,...
Tags: Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Mr. Obama, Pakistani, NATO, military analysts, United States, americans troop, additional troop, analysts say, Kandahar, Taliban, Helmand Province, International Security Assistance Force, War in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Politics
Bomb blast kills five Afghan border policemen
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility Five Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan Sunday, a police official said. The explosion happened in Spin Boldak, a district in the volatile province of Kandahar bordering Pakistan, said General Abdul Raziq,...
Tags: bordering security, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Afghanistan, security guards, Abdul Raziq, Spin Boldak, Pakistan, taliban militants, roadside bomb, Government of Pakistan, Loya jirga, Jirga, Politics of Pakistan, Afghan culture, Government of Afghanistan, War Conflict, Politics, Operation Mountain Fury, Taliban insurgency, Islamic terrorism, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, Chakari, Warrant, Pashtun people, Karzai, Kabul, Kandahar Province, International Security Assistance Force, Elections in Afghanistan, Orￅﾫzgￄﾁn Province, Tajiks, Year of birth uncertain
Taliban attack kills eight policemen in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 16 days ago
Credibility 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,...
Tags: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Stanley A. McChrystal, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO, Karzai, Pashtun people, Hamid Karzai, War in Afghanistan, Politics, War Conflict, Operation Mountain Fury, Taliban, Taliban insurgency, Second Chechen War, suicide bombings in Iraq, Kandahar Province, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammed Fahim, Afghan Civil War
French soldier killed in Afghanistan, two wounded
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility The French presidential office confirmed that a French soldier was killed and two others wounded in an attack by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday. The attack occurred in the Ghayne valley, where French soldiers were in an operation supporting...
Tags: Afghanistan, French, U.S, roadside bombs, Kandahar Province, Kabul, americans troops, southern afghanistan, soldiers killed, use military
Canadian soldiers accidentally kill Afghan girl
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility An Afghan girl has been killed in an accidental shooting by Canadian soldiers in Kandahar province, military officials disclosed Wednesday. Soldiers had dismounted from a convoy in the volatile Panjwaii district when a motorcycle came speeding towards...
Tags: Task Force Afghanistan, Task Force Kandahar, ISAF, U.S, service member, kandahar province, southern afghanistan, military officials, member killing, warn shot
Canada debuts Afghan 'model village' amid raised expectations
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility A shura in a "model village" south of Kandahar city on Tuesday marked the debut of a key part of Canada's strategy to move away from a hard-edged combat role in Afghanistan toward one of co-operative aid and reconstruction. The aim is to empower small...
Tags: Canada, Afghanistan, Kandahar City, Kandahar Province
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