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KABUL, Afghanistan ... bombing on the road from Kandahar to the border. Other refugees have fled north to the capital, Kabul. U.S. Marines stationed at a desert base about 70 miles southwest ...
Flares were fired from U.S. positions around the U.S. military base near Kandahar late Thursday ... U.S. aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing ...
Kandahar has also served as a base for Al Qaeda. From 1998 to 2001, before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and his ... imposed a curfew on the city while continuing to flood it with ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan has a new crew running operations: troops from the 101st Airborne Division. The renowned paratrooper corps took over the ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- Afghan and international military officials said a group of insurgents with small arms and suicide bombers attacked a coalition base in southern Afghanistan Monday ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a ...
Kandahar has experienced some of the worst of the violence in Afghanistan in recent years and is seen as the spiritual homeland of the Taliban. The gun battle inside the police training and ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When Taliban ... Generators at the base are without fuel to power high-wattage flood lights, their best defense when insurgents, some equipped with night vision goggles ...
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 ...
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 ...