KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Security forces have foiled an attempt to smuggle 38,000 kilograms of silver in southern Kandahar province. In a statement, the governor’s office said the silver was seized by ...

A fire in Kandahar’s second district caused 28 million afghanis in damage, with officials saying firefighters prevented far greater losses after containing the blaze.

Thousands of U.S. and Afghan forces head to southern Afghanistan in the coming weeks for a military operation in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. The operation is intended to confront Taliban ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next major ...

This past summer, two assassinations paralyzed the southern Afghan city of Kandahar with fears of a power vacuum. In the first incident, President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, ...

U.S. military officials are preparing to attempt to take control of Kandahar away from the Taliban later this year. Two young Western residents of the city, Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten, ...

U.S. and Afghan troops are stepping up the long-planned assault on Kandahar. The southern Afghan city and surrounding province of the same name, where the Taliban began in 1994 and which reportedly ...