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Three killed in suicide attack in Afghanistan: official

KANDAHAR: A suicide bombing killed three people and wounded 12 others outside a bank in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday, a...

At least 32 dead, 53 wounded in Kandahar mosque blast

Blasts tore through a mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, killing at least 32 people and injuring 53 others. The...

India’s military planes drop weapons in Afghanistan in guise of airlifting diplomats

ISLAMABAD: Two Indian planes landed in Afghanistan's Kandahar on Saturday to airlift its team of a diplomatic mission serving there apparently, only to emerge...

India shuts down Afghanistan’s Kandahar consulate

India has evacuated around 50 diplomats and other staff members of the Kandahar consulate in Afghanistan in view of the "intense fighting near Kandahar...

Afghans risk their lives to vote in delayed Kandahar poll

KABUL: Afghans risked their lives to vote in legislative elections in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, after the Taliban-claimed killing of a powerful police chief...

Afghanistan delays vote in strategic Kandahar after killing of commander

Saturday’s parliamentary election in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar will be delayed by a week after the assassination of one of the country’s most powerful security chiefs.

Top Afghan police chief killed in shooting, US general unhurt

KANDAHAR: Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan’s most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in...

16 killed, 38 wounded by blast in Afghanistan’s Kandahar

KANDAHAR: At least 16 people were killed and 38 wounded Tuesday when a minivan packed with explosives exploded as members of the security forces...

16 killed, 38 wounded by blast in southern Afghan city

KABUL: At least 16 people were killed and 38 wounded Tuesday when a minivan packed with explosives detonated as security forces were trying to...

43 Afghan troops die in Kandahar military base attack

KANDAHAR: At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a militant attack on an Afghan military base in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, officials...

12 Afghan security men killed in suicide attack: police

KANDAHAR: At least a dozen Afghan security force personnel were killed in a suicide attack driving with an explosives-packed vehicle in Kandahar. The Taliban claimed...

Gunmen kill five female airport workers in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR: Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the...

Afghan road crash inferno leaves at least 73 dead

GHAZNI: At least 73 people were killed Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said, in one of the worst road accidents in the war-battered nation.

Marathon Kandahar airport siege leaves at least 50 dead

KANDAHAR: The death toll from a 27-hour Taliban siege of Kandahar airport has jumped to at least 50, officials said Thursday, after a conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.

37 killed in Taliban siege at Afghan airport: defence ministry

KANDAHAR: At least 37 people were killed and 35 others wounded when Taliban militants stormed Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan, with one gunman still resisting security forces, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Taliban gunmen launch suicide attack near Kandahar

KANDAHAR: Taliban militants wearing Afghan army uniforms launched a suicide and gun attack on a police headquarters near Kandahar Thursday, killing one soldier before the attackers were shot dead, authorities said.

Lights set to go out in Kandahar after U.S. aid winds down

KABUL/KANDAHAR: When the United States stops funding power generation in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar next year, the lights are set to go out and factories will fall idle, playing into the hands of Taliban insurgents active in the area.
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