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At least 80 people were killed on February 17, 2008 in a suicide bomb attack at an outdoor dog fight in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The target appears to have been local ...

According to officials in Afghanistan's Arghandab district, an area located just north of the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban fighters overran several villages in mid-June, 2008. The capture ...

On June 23, 2008, five days after the start of an effort to remove Taliban fighters from a strategic area north of Kandahar, spokesmen for Afghan forces announced that the ...

The U.S. Air Force confirmed the existence of the "Beast of Kandahar," a stealth drone whose official name is the RQ-170 Sentinel. The confirmation of the drone was revealed ...

Members of the Taliban attacked a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on June 13, 2008. Using 30 insurgents on motorcycles and two suicide bombers, the group managed to free many of ...

Canwest reporter for the Calgery Herald Michelle Lang was killed along with four Canadian soldiers in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009. Lang, at age 34, became ...

At least 15 school girls in Kandahar, Afghanistan, were sprayed with acid in November 2008 in an attack outside a local high school. Two attackers sprayed the girls with a ...

The U.S. military says an October 2008 coalition airstrike in Afghanistan killed Taliban commander Mullah Ghafar. Ghafar was believed to be the leader of Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan ...