Latest news about Kandahar
US charges defense contractor with Afghan killing (AP via Yahoo! News)
A defense contractor who once provided personal security for Afghanistan's president was charged with shooting a handcuffed Afghani civilian after hearing the man had inflicted serious burns on a fellow contractor, prosecutors said.
20 Nov 2008, 5:33 pm | click here for more
'Disruption operation' to protect Kandahar (Ottawa Citizen)
Massive bomb blasts from a coalition jet shook the grape fields west of Kandahar as Canadian soldiers joined U.S. and British forces in a week-long squeeze play to disrupt Taliban activity and protect areas below NATO control.
20 Nov 2008, 4:28 pm | click here for more
Army Contractor Charged With Murder (Wired News)
A member of the Army's controversial combat anthropology program is accused of second-degree murder for killing Kandahar native Abdul Salam in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot the Afghani villager in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala's Human Terrain Team co-workers on flame.
20 Nov 2008, 3:32 pm | click here for more
US charges defense contractor with Afghan murder (AP via Yahoo! News)
A defense contractor who provided personal security to Afghan and Iraqi leaders has been charged with killing an Afghan civilian.
20 Nov 2008, 1:30 pm | click here for more
Canadian-led mission finds explosives near Kandahar (CTV.ca)
NATO troops discovered a cache of weapons during a mission in which an IED blast injured six Afghan soldiers, barely missing Canadian soldiers.
20 Nov 2008, 1:13 pm | click here for more
Canadian-led mission flushes Taliban from Zhari, uncovers explosives caches (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
LAKOKHEL, Afghanistan - South of this tiny Afghan village west of Kandahar city, the throaty twin-engine roar of Sea King and Chinook helicopters echoed through the air as they disgorged the first wave of what would turn out to be an entire battalion of British Royal Marines.
20 Nov 2008, 12:43 pm | click here for more
You can buy a coffee for our troops in Kandahar (yorkregion.com)
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19 Nov 2008, 8:20 pm | click here for more
Robert Fisk: Once more fear stalks the streets of Kandahar (Independent)
There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot was torn to pieces. In another ward, two girls lie on their backs, a tent over their limbs. One has lost an arm, another – a ...
19 Nov 2008, 7:31 pm | click here for more
Bomb aimed at Afghan soldiers kills 4 civilians in Kandahar province (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb aimed at Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan killed four civilians Monday, while a suicide bomb attack in the same region killed three other people, an official said.
17 Nov 2008, 8:38 am | click here for more
Afghanistan: Twin blasts kill at least seven in Kandahar (Adnkronos)
Afghanistan: Twin blasts kill at least seven in Kandahar (AKI) - Two Afghan police and one civilian were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber disguised as a police officer detonated his explosives at the police headquarters in the southern province of Kandahar. The suicide bomber attempted to enter the headquarters but detonated his explosives as he was stopped by security guards, ...
17 Nov 2008, 1:14 pm | click here for more