CHAMAN, Pakistan, Nov. 26 -- Aided by U.S. airstrikes and Special Forces attacks, Pashtun tribal militias pushed closer to Kandahar today while another group of tribal leaders negotiated to take ...

CHAMAN, Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- The Taliban's decision to retreat from Afghanistan's capital and northern regions set off a wave of panic in Kandahar, a large southern city that is the power base of ...

Some Afghans fear a loss in the vote for Zalmai Rassoul, a candidate close to President Hamid Karzai, could push Kandahar's powerful Pashtun tribes into rejecting rule from Kabul, some 500 km (300 ...

That triggered renewed U.S. engagement in the Pashtun heartland, including areas north of Kandahar. A major American military offensive was launched in 2010 in Marja, to the west of Kandahar in ...

Pashtun tribal forces have "liberated" a town near the Taliban militia's southern Afghanistan base of Kandahar, likely cutting the main road to Pakistan, according to a tribal elder who said that ...

Residents of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan's Pashtun capital, are filled with uncertainty following the recent assassinations of key political figures. Many Kandaharis are looking to Kabul to ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2009— ... It is also the hub for the country's Pashtuns, Afghanistan's ethnic majority who also make up the majority of the Taliban.

Malalai Ishaq Zai is a woman from Kandahar who during the Taliban rule retreated to her house and taught girls who had been banned from schools how to stitch clothes. Today, she is a elected ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Growing violence in the southern province of Kandahar ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election next week highlights a rift between Pashtun tribes that could ...