Kandahar

As I left Kandahar last November, I asked Hamidi when he planned to call it a day.

The attack comes just a day after another bomber claimed the life of the Police Chief of Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan.

He described Kandahar as "culturally probably the most significant place in terms of the Pashtun people of Afghanistan" .

But when the troops received word that they would be headed to Kandahar, it was one of the many things they knew they would need.

And a big hydropower plant at the nearby Kajaki dam should be able to light up Kandahar for a fraction of the cost.

The other problem had been his response to a decision by the Kandahar-based vaccination teams to go on strike.

He said although it is difficult to see the end of the Kandahar operation, "the beginning is moving on track. "

The idea would be to consolidate around two populous regions, central Helmand and Kandahar, and the main road between them.

He took ice-hockey players to visit the troops and installed an all-Canadian doughnut shop on the army's base in Kandahar.

This effort, concentrated in a summer offensive in Kandahar, is likely to determine the success of what is now General Petraeus's mission.

United States soldier has his head shaved at Combat Outpost Ware in the volatile Arghandab Valley outside Kandahar City.

The first goal was starting an independent radio station in Kandahar. The next was an economic project.

There are more Afghan troops to train, he said. Others add that there are fewer Taliban rebels to fight in Kandahar.

Having visited Helmand, Kandahar and Kabul recently for the third time in just over a year, I found the signs of improvement unmistakable.

"They're the ones that can answer that particular question, " he said at a town hall-style gathering of soldiers in Kandahar.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 21 people in an attack on a hotel near the Afghan city of Kandahar.

Considered the most powerful man in Kandahar, he had been accused of criminality, corruption and drug running.

Maj Gen Carter also said warlords in Kandahar had been allowed to build up militias which they then claimed were private security companies.

He was genuinely interested in the way in which we were working with the Canadians in an area west of Kandahar City.

This tiny diplomatic mission in the heart of Kandahar sends Pakistani officials into paroxysms of rage.

Kandahar policewoman Malalai Kakar arrests a man who repeatedly stabbed his wife, 15, for disobeying him.

They say the police were in a vehicle traveling through Zhari district in the province of Kandahar when the bomb exploded.

A spokesman for the Taliban denied that, saying that on the contrary, the Kandahar attack had been planned for some time.

The summer will see an intensified attempt to drain away insurgent influence from the crucial southern town of Kandahar.

Southern Afghanistan witnessed half of these with Helmand province and Kandahar province proving the most dangerous.

Hamidi was the mayor of Kandahar City and a suicide bomber killed him last month near his downtown office.

Mr. Mohammed was allowed to walk into Mr. Karzai's fortified Kandahar residence without being checked by security.

An explosion in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 39 people, Afghan officials say.

The blood-soaked uniform of a U. S. Army soldier lies on the floor of the trauma ward at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.

Anight-vision goggles technician, she spent five months in Kandahar in 2004, calling it "a big field trip. "

A member of a US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team prepares for exercises at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

The leaked war logs show that Task Force 373 uses at least three bases in Afghanistan, in Kabul, Kandahar and Khost.

Rightly or not, many Kandaharis believe the main representative of the law in Kandahar is above it.

The first stop on his goodbye tour was to visit troops at Forward Operating Base Walton in Kandahar Province.

Mullah Omar is thought by some to be hiding in Kandahar or Helmand. Others suspect he is in Pakistan's tribal areas.

At the time he was interviewed, in Kandahar, he was being evacuated from Afghanistan for apparent traumatic brain injury.

Mr. Wesa, the Kandahar provincial governor, said a manhunt was on and that 26 escapees had been captured by late afternoon.

Long-term security will not be achieved unless Kandahar's politics can be improved.

He is visiting Kandahar to get a sense of what is happening and describes what the coming weeks will bring.

At the Oberoi Trident, gunmen burst into the Kandahar restaurant and reportedly took American and British nationals hostage.

Afghan officials say a powerful bomb blast in the southern city of Kandahar has killed at least 13 people and wounded 13 others.

These aircraft are frequently used to cover Canadian Operations in Kandahar.

But he told VOA the military action in Kandahar must be followed by swift political and structural changes.

US Army soldier from the scans the area with a scope during a night observation mission in Kandahar Province.

Meanwhile, Nato, US and Afghan forces are preparing their biggest offensive against the rebels in the southern province of Kandahar.

Kandahar province, an official said on condition of anonymity, escape before the incident, El Bossa prison over a thousand prisoners.

NATO says its patrol fired on a large vehicle after the driver refused warnings to stop in the Zhari district of Kandahar province.

More spectacular attacks in Kabul must be expected, and perhaps a greater effort to threaten Kandahar, the second-largest city.

The anticipated surge to secure Kandahar province has been postponed due to the Taliban's penetration of the region.

Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban forces in the hinterland of the Taliban in the province actively.

Coll says NATO plans to create an environment of security in Kandahar that would allow Afghans to create fresh political equations.

The explosion happened on the main road linking the city of Kandahar to the southwestern province of Nimroz.

In these circumstances, turning Kandahar round can seem less like a plan than an aspiration.

The body has received 120 complaints, including ballot box stuffing in Kandahar province.

Rockets also hit the cities of Kandahar, Ghazni and Kunduz, where two election observers were wounded at a polling station.

On the ground in Afghanistan, Getty Images photographer Justin Sullivan brings us images from a Army medevac unit stationed in Kandahar.

British forces last week led similar, but smaller, missions to fight and clear out insurgents in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar provinces.

Miz Hamidi returned to Afghanistan seven years ago to help improve the lives of women in Kandahar.

The Taliban have been pushed back from Kandahar, but they are not close to being defeated.

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Women do their daily shopping in the women's section of a bazaar.

For the Wilfahrts, the unit's return from its deployment near Kandahar will be a sad and poignant occasion.

With its slow progress in Marja in mind, however, NATO's main focus is on improving Kandahar's government.

So far, though, the evidence suggests they are having the opposite effect in Kandahar.

Some fear that fighting in the surrounding countryside will push insurgents into Kandahar city, traditionally a sanctuary.

Kandahar has the symbolic importance of being the spiritual centre of the Taliban movement and also the place of its origin.

ESCORT DUTY: Canadian soldiers from the NATO-led coalition waited to escort a truck into Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday.

The mayor of Kandahar was killed by a Taliban insurgent who concealed a bomb in his turban.

The main fight of the surge is set for this summer in the Taliban's spiritual home of Kandahar, in southern Afghanisatan.

Eight were killed in separate roadside bombings in Kandahar province, and one died of injuries from a helicopter crash in Paktika.

But it is not hearts and minds in Kabul and Kandahar that most preoccupy the PM now, but hearts and minds much closer to home.

Today Taliban insurgents again hold sway over much of the Kandahar countryside.

The news has also been compared with the Kandahar government spokesman Ayub confirmed.

Kandahar and Bagram air bases will stage the operations and remain under NATO control for the foreseeable future.

The remaining third -- in particular Helmand and Kandahar provinces -- is rife with both poppies and insurgents.

Officials in Kandahar say that they believed a huge bomb was hidden in a petrol tanker or a truck.

Mr Karzai's supposedly corrupt half-brother was meant to go, but he remains in charge in Kandahar.

An Afghan interpreter also was killed in the attack, which occurred in Kandahar province, where Canadian troops are based.

Yet Kandahar highlights the limits, even contradictions, of the new approach.

A Kandahar provincial official and his bodyguard on their way to work were shot dead by two gunmen on a motorbike.

Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.

The abstractions that once vividly inspired us now seem camouflaged in the emotional landscape of Kandahar.

Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban forces in the traditional hinterland.

Seven foreign UN staff and guards were killed in Mazar-i-Sharif, while a dozen people died in clashes with police in Kandahar.

Governor of Kandahar Province Vesa day confirmed that about 475 prisoners through the prison escape tunnel from the Saar Bossa.

In front of us was a platter of ruby red pomegranates, a speciality of the Kandahar region.

whose life was saved by Captain Stevens in a firefight just outside of Kandahar.

There were two wives in Kandahar, each with her own house.

Allegedly he helped organise a militia, the Kandahar Strike Force, which works for the CIA.

Canadian army soldiers sun bathe in Seprwan Ghar forward fire base the Panjwai district of Kandahar province southern Afghanistan.

The half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been shot dead at his home in southern Kandahar province.

They constantly threaten traffic on the highway that connects Kandahar with Herat.

Watan's secret weapon to protect American supplies heading through Kandahar is a man named Commander Ruhullah.

A doctor at the hospital in Kandahar city says nine people were killed, including two women.

He attacked Kandahar, where Kabul's previous occupants hailed from, and beat them soundly.

Quetta is a frontier city about a three-hour drive from Kandahar in Afghanistan.

Kandahar provincial government issued a brief statement, said Wali Karzai, 12, killed in their residence.

These two surveys involving a total of 05-08, when the Canadian Task Force in Kandahar with a total of U. S. Special Forces military bases.

The heaviest fighting erupted late Saturday in the southern province of Kandahar.

A suicide bomber in a horse-drawn cart has killed eight people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.

But this was Kandahar City, a sprawling desert entrepot of 800, 000 people in the middle of a war, in southern Afghanistan.

Watan is known to control one key stretch of road that all the truckers use: the strategic route to Kandahar called Highway 1.

Kandahar is President Karzai's home province and also has a significant Taliban presence.

The deputy mayor of Kandahar was murdered while he prayed in a mosque.

A U. S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport on June 13, 2010.

After the Punjwai bombing, Mr Karzai visited the southern capital of Kandahar, his home town, to apologise to the tribal elders.

A man dries grapes on a large field near a cemetery near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Taliban forces in Kandahar province, the traditional hinterland in the province of activity is more active.

Where the hell are we? - Kandahar, Afghanistan.

As an adviser to the International Security Assistance Force, he served in Kabul in 2006 and Kandahar in 2010.

Oruzgan has mostly come under pressure from groups in Kandahar and Helmand.

In 2010, Palu was awarded a grant from the Alexia Foundation for his project on Kandahar.

The new strategy is about to face its defining moment in Kandahar.

Officials in the city of Kandahar said many of those who escaped from Sarposa jail were Taliban insurgents.

The killing is similar to the September 28 assassination of Kandahar's most senior policewoman.

Soldiers walk around a postcard stand in a shop at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct.

Behind it, another high wall protects India's consulate in Kandahar.

Local activists also established a Women's Council in Kandahar.

U. S Secretary of Defense Robert Gates boards a C-17 after visiting U. S troop in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.

The plane has now landed in Kandahar, according to "diplomatic sources" cited by the agency.

Kandahar province has been wracked by increasing violence.

British troops have a major base in the town of Gereshk, along the Kandahar-Herat road.

Canada provides the main force in Kandahar.

"We are not fighting to bring Mullah Omar back or for any individual, " said a mid-ranking commander from Dand, in Kandahar province.

PRT officials tour Kandahar in armoured convoys.

In Kandahar there are 23 unregistered security companies, not including militias working with American special-forces soldiers and the CIA.

Areas of Helmand and Kandahar have recently been secured.

A suicide bomb at a dog fight near Kandahar last week killed more than 80 people.

A US Predator drone flies above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on 31 January.

The six men were killed when the armoured vehicle in which they were traveling hit a mine about 1. 30 p. m. Kandahar time on Easter Sunday.

The American trucking official told me that Ruhullah "charges $1, 500 per truck to go to Kandahar. Just 300km. "

On May, 22 this year, they even launched a ground attack on Kandahar air field, NATO's sprawling military base outside the city.

By 1999 he had moved to a complex of houses near Kandahar.

Azam Ahmed contributed reporting from Kabul, and Taimoor Shah from Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Kandahar city is the spiritual home of the Taliban, who set up their capital there in 1996.

Safia, her first child by the Al-Qaeda kingpin, was born in Kandahar in 2001.

Kandahar, police said around 9: 30, a road construction company truck triggered a roadside bomb exploded.

On the[color=#333333] backfoot militarily in the south, they have waged a campaign of assassinating high-placed officials in Kandahar.

I was once stranded with fellow journalists in Kandahar, our bags lost.

More than the truck was carrying construction workers are preparing to go to Jack Pan Wye district of Kandahar province.

Mohammad Idris Afzaly, 20, from Kandahar, resigned a day after meeting with AFP, deciding the risk was too great.

A few months ago NATO generals said that a big offensive in Kandahar was pointless as long as Ahmed Wali remained in power.

Ruhullah Khapalwak contributed reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Taimoor Shah from Kandahar.

Eventually Omar's mother and siblings joined them and they settled down outside of Kandahar.

Over the past 1 month time, there are two partners in Kandahar province, Taliban fighters to surrender.

The Pir Mohammed School was built by Canadians in 2005, in Senjaray, a town just outside the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

A U. S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan Sunday, Jan.

S. Army's 101st Airborne Division was recently attacked October 14, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Policewoman Malalai Kakar arrests Janan, 35, after he tried to kill his 15-year-old wife Jamila in Kandahar on June 4, 2006.

There are several cities such as Herat and Kandahar in Afghanistan had become an essential city.

His life was Kandahar City, with no time off.

Afghan officials say most of the flu cases have been in Kabul, Parwan and the provinces of Herat, Kandahar, Ningrahar and Bamiyan.

The real test will come in Kandahar.

If the army wants to get supplies down to Helmand, for example, the trucks must make their way through Kandahar.

Some Kandahar residents, such as Haji Toryali, are questioning the ability of the government and the foreign troops to provide security.

For example, the border town of Spin Boldak, located south of Kandahar, serves as the gateway to and from northern Pakistan.

Jamila Barekzai is a police officer whose female colleague was killed by the Taliban last year in Kandahar for daring to do a mans' job.

Our troops have been to lands unknown to many Americans a decade ago -- to Kandahar and Kabul; to Mosul and Basra.

Second, if security is guaranteed, China will send teams to study the water conservancy project in Parwan and hospital in Kandahar.

he should move his brother, Ahmad Wali, accused of being both a drugs lord and in the pay of the CIA, away from his power-base in Kandahar;

Grazing camels are seen through the window of a US armoured vehicle in Dand district of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan

The writer is a veteran diplomat and was the US senior civilian in Kandahar province from 2009 to 2010

As the coalition rounded up prisoners, the Taliban surrendered their last stronghold, Kandahar, in December 2001. (AFP)

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