... defeat the Taliban at their last stand in Kandahar, and he all but ruled out sending in ... wounded Tuesday during the fighting around Kandahar, the Taliban militia's southern stronghold ... the anti-Taliban groups surrounding Kandahar, said the officials, who spoke on ...

... militia Thursday on the outskirts of Kandahar, the ousted regime's last bastion ... fighters reached the eastern edge of Kandahar -- the Taliban's birthplace and the ... that anti-Taliban fighters had entered Kandahar. He indicated northern alliance troops ...

... airstrikes pummeled the defenders of Kandahar Sunday with anti-Taliban forces within ... terrorists from their cave hide-outs near Kandahar and Jalalabad. Asked on NBC's "Meet ... base in the desert 70 miles southwest of Kandahar, an officer suggested for the first ...

... Sunday near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the former stronghold and spiritual ... in Pakistan, said his colleagues in Kandahar confirmed that U.S. troops were on ... Marines landed by helicopter southwest of Kandahar, the official said. The arrival of ...

... Afghan forces. British forces last week led similar, but smaller, missions to clear out insurgents in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar province. - Advertisement - "Where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold, build and work toward transition ...

... Embassy in Kabul that killed 60 people. In southern Afghanistan, meanwhile, a roadside bomb Saturday killed seven policemen in Kandahar province, the Interior Ministry statement said. Another two Afghan soldiers died in a separate blast in Helmand province ...

... the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar. It's now clear some of the troops and firepower will flow directly from Iraq, where the Pentagon plans to gradually draw ...

... years there had been a lull. About a third of the 29 deaths this year were caused by roadside bombs, including an attack in Kandahar province on Tuesday that killed four U.S. troops. Julian said insurgents are using more IEDs and fewer direct attacks because ...

... leaders who might have slipped out of Kandahar as the former ruling militia abandoned its last stronghold. Kandahar was reported to be tense, with the ... Laden were still holding out at the Kandahar airport and refusing to surrender ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The guns and ammunition were expected. The poster of New York's Twin Towers set against Afghan mountains ...