KABUL, Afghanistan -- Anti-Taliban tribesmen said they seized tanks and heavy weapons Friday from Taliban militiamen who gave up without a fight near the airport outside Kandahar. An American general ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Tribal fighters said they captured 80 Taliban soldiers today near the airport at Kandahar as anti-Taliban forces closed in on the Islamic militia stronghold. The Taliban soldiers ...

Research suggests the cash-strapped Afghan Taliban is underutilizing U.S. military bases in Afghanistan that were evacuated ...

Taliban propaganda has depicted a flurry of activity at former U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Aerial images show aircraft decoys ...

Associated Press WriterISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar agreed Thursday to surrender his last major bastion Kandahar to tribal forces and put himself under the ...

Backing away from their vow to defend Kandahar to the death, the Taliban had agreed Thursday to hand their weapons over to a tribal leader and surrender the city, the Taliban s birthplace and last ...

KABUL - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan pledged Monday to retake the symbolic Taliban home ground of Kandahar in a campaign that builds on early signs of progress from the huge infusion ...

The Taliban last attempted a large-scale assault in Kandahar province in late 2006, a monthslong engagement that killed more than 500 of its fighters. That marked the last time the Taliban fought in ...

CAMP RHINO, SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Marines said today that they were preparing to abandon this outpost in the sand and move to the Kandahar airport, where they were building a ...

U.S. and Afghan officials say it will take more than the new American-led military thrust in Kandahar to drive out the Taliban. Local governments... In Kandahar, It Will Take A Village To Oust Taliban ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 16 -- A news agency close to the Taliban leadership reported tonight it had agreed to turn over the key city of Kandahar to two ethnic Pashtun tribal chiefs, bowing to pressure ...