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 ...

Aid workers in contact with people in Kandahar said most Taliban fighters had departed, but leaders of ethnic Pashtun tribes who oppose the Taliban said the radical Islamic militia remained in ...

Growing violence in the southern province of Kandahar ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election next week highlights a rift between Pashtun tribes that could tip the country back into civil war.

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Sarah Chayes in Quetta reports on the fall of Kandahar, the last major Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. Some Taliban fighters surrendered their weapons to Pashtun tribal leaders in ...

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 ...

Kabul - Pashtun tribal forces have captured a town near the Taliban militia's southern Afghanistan base of Kandahar, likely cutting the main road to Pakistan, tribal elder Hamid Karzai told ...

"People in Kandahar are tired of exclusive rule by the president's brothers, while other tribes have been suppressed by the Popalzai tribe," said Haji Ehsaan, an elder of another Pashtun tribe ...