Further east, six people were killed in Helmand province, including a child struck by lightning, and nine in Kandahar province. Officials said the deadly downpours may however help improve long-term ...

Denis Thompson, a retired major general who served in Kandahar ... Afghanistan was a counter-insurgency war and there is no front line in a counter insurgency. So the instant you leave a base ...

Victims of flash floods in northern Afghanistan say they have lost family and homes since heavy rains first struck the region on May 10. Thousands have been made homeless and hundreds are dead ...

Afghanistan’s capital is Kabul but Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada lives in Kandahar city, for decades the stronghold of the Taliban movement. “A suicide attack occurred in which three ...

Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar is the historical birthplace and the political base of the Taliban. Now, the country’s second-largest city appears to be becoming the de facto capital ...

Rod Henderson was on the right door gun of a Chinook, flying low over Afghanistan, when he realised something ... “We were on the late final approach to land at [Forward Operating Base] Sakari Karez ...

A conservative faction of the former mujahideen, who had built a power base in the rural parts ... The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline promised to flood the region with tens of millions of dollars ...

Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach on June ... Colonel Fitzgerald met Colonel Weir when they were serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan. “Weir selflessly helped me become a ...

Staff at the Kandahar Air Field ... located on a far-flung military base that is surrounded by desert and shot at by insurgents, the combat hospital in Afghanistan where Canadian casualties ...

The upheaval has also sent a flood of Afghan refugees into ... out large-scale attacks against Shiites in Afghanistan and could use Afghanistan as a base to launch terrorist attacks in Iran.

The sectarian bloodletting has raised fears that IS — an enemy of both the Taliban and the West — is expanding its foothold in Afghanistan. Hafiz Sayeed, the Taliban's chief for Kandahar's ...