Kandahar
latest news & developments
UNICEF: Up to 60% of Afghan girls out of school
The spread in violence has forced many schools to close, undermining fragile gains in education for girls
Blame psychological warfare
The latest Kandahar massacre has illustrated how soldier’s have hardened and how their natural ‘shoot-to-miss’ instinct have been stifled.
Taliban down but not out in Afghanistan’s Kandahar
Foreign and Afghan forces have pushed back the Taliban insurgency in the key Kandahar province battleground.
Training Afghanistan’s police seen as key to future
The future of Afghanistan is placed in the hands of police officers and their superiors. Focus is placed on skills development and education.
Explosions across Afghanistan’s Kandahar
Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding scores.
Nato denies killing civilians in Afghan strike
Nato and US forces said they had carried out a strike in Afghanistan, but denied allegations on Wednesday that civilians were killed in their sleep.
Men spray acid at Afghan schoolgirls, 15 hurt
Attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar Wednesday, hurting 15 of them.
Suicide blast kills 10 Afghan civilians
A suicide attack on a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some Nato soldiers.
Afghan, Nato forces rout Taliban
Afghan and Nato-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from the outskirts of Kandahar.
Karzai threatens to send troops into Pakistan
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s President, escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan on Sunday by threatening to send troops across the border.
Suicide bomber kills 35 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber targeting a military convoy in Afghanistan killed 35 people in an attack near the Pakistan border on Monday. The attack, a day after more than 100 people were…
Afghan, Nato troops kill at least 12 Taliban
Afghan and Nato-led troops, backed by air power, killed at least 12 Taliban fighters and wounded another 15 in an operation in southern Afghanistan, a Defence Ministry…
Fifty Taliban killed, say Afghan police
Afghan and Nato forces have killed 50 Taliban rebels in three days of clashes and surrounded 200 others who occupied civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, police said on…
Twin suicide raids kill 26 in Afghan south
At least 26 people, many of them civilians, were killed on Monday in two simultaneous suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a provincial police official…
Afghan forces kill 21 Taliban insurgents
Afghan forces have killed 21 Taliban insurgents in the southern province of Zabul, a provincial official said on Monday. ”We received intelligence that a sizeable group of…