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Latest Kandahar news, with updates and breaking news from the city in Afghanistan located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River.
- Local Official Says Kandahar Has Fallen
- Security Council Discussing Statement to Condemn Taliban
- Taliban Claims to Have Taken Kandahar
- Us Tells Afghan President Ghani It “Remains Invested” in Afghanistan
- EU Foreign Policy Chief Urges Afghan Government to Work with Taliban
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- Us Sending Troops to Help Evacuate Embassy Staff in Kabul
- UK to Send Troops to Kabul ‘To Assist British Nationals to Leave’: UK Govt
- Afghanistan’s Third-Largest City, Herat, Falls to Taliban
- Un Warns of ‘Catastrophic Impact’ If Afghan Conflict Reaches Kabul
A local government official has told Reuters news agency that the Taliban have captured Kandahar. “Following heavy clashes late last night the Taliban took control of Kandahar city,” a local government official told the news agency. Government forces were still in control of Kandahar’s airport, which was the U.S. military’s second biggest base in A...
Reuters is reporting that the UN Security Council is discussing a draft statement that would condemn Taliban attacks on cities and towns causing high civilian casualties. The statement would also threaten sanctions for abuses and acts that risk Afghanistan’s peace and stability, diplomats told the news agency. The formal statement, drafted by Eston...
The Taliban is claiming it has captured Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city. “Kandahar is completely conquered. The Mujahideen reached Martyrs’ Square in the city,” a Taliban spokesman tweeted on an officially recognised account – a claim backed by a resident, who told AFP news agency government forces appeared to have withdrawn en masse to...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stressed in a call with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday that the US “remains invested in the security and stability of Afghanistan in the face of violence by the Taliban”, the State Department said in a statement. Blinken and Austin told Ghani the US was reducing i...
The Afghan government should engage with the Taliban to reach an inclusive settlement, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as the group made rapid gains amid spiralling violence and worries of a refugee crisis. “We encourage the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to settle political differences, increase representation of all stakeholders and e...
During the past seven days, the Taliban has taken control of at least 11 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals. The armed group now controls an estimated 65 percent of the country’s territory, as the US-led foreign forces are about to complete the pullout from the country after 20 years of war. Read more here. 12 Aug 2021 - 19:39 GMT
The US is sending an additional 3,000 troops into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the embassy in Kabul, Biden administration officials said Thursday. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the embassy will remain open despite the planned evacuations. Read more here. 12 Aug 2021 - 18:55 GMT
The UK government said it was sending troops to Afghanistan to help its embassy staff leave the country, after the United States announced a similar deployment as the Taliban makes rapid gains. “I have authorised the deployment of additional military personnel to support the diplomatic presence in Kabul, assist British nationals to leave the countr...
Afghanistan’s third-largest city, Herat, has been captured by the Taliban, residents and local journalists said, becoming the eleventh provincial capital to be captured by the armed group in recent days. “We’ve talked to about half a dozen residents in Herat, to try to confirm this. They’re all saying the same thing. They say the Taliban all over t...
The UN issued a stark warning on Thursday if ongoing fighting between Afghan government forces and the Taliban reaches the capital. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric emphasised the importance of the continuing intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha, Qatar, warning that fighting on Kabul’s streets would lead to a major h...
Oct 15, 2021 · More than 40 people were killed and dozens more injured after blasts tore through a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in the Afghan city of Kandahar.
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Mar 21, 2024 · At least three people have been killed and 12 others wounded in a suicide bombing in front of a bank in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city, according to local police and officials.
Mar 21, 2024 · At least 21 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a hospital doctor has told the BBC. The Taliban government says a suicide attack took place at a...
Aug 12, 2021 · With the fall of Kandahar, Lashkar Gah and Herat, the Taliban have gained control of more than a dozen provincial capitals in just one week.
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Aug 9, 2021 · For the past month, Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, has been under siege by Taliban fighters. Families stuck between them and government forces have almost nowhere to go.
