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 tip ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 30 -- U.S. warplanes conducted withering airstrikes against Taliban defenses around Kandahar today, creating what travelers said was a huge dust cloud over the besieged southern ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has agreed to leave his headquarters at Kandahar and turn over the southern Afghan city to two local Pashtun leaders, the Afghan Islamic ...

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 ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.

Hamid Karzai, Pashtun who is Afghanistan's designated interim leader, gets seemingly welcome from Tajik-dominated leadership of Northern Alliance in Kabul; former president Burhannudin Rabbani says he ...

Can Mullah Omar retire quietly to the suburbs of Kandahar if he hands the city over to his opponents, disbands his army and says he’s really, really sorry? That was the question hanging over ...