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    Kandahar is the founding city and spiritual center of the Taliban. Despite the capital of Afghanistan being Kabul, where the government administration is based, Kandahar is the seat of power in Afghanistan as the supreme leader and his spiritual advisers are based there.

  2. May 26, 2023 · Kandahar: Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. With Tom Rhys Harries, Farhad Bagheri, Gerard Butler, Mitchell LaFortune. A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission.

  3. Kandahar, titled Mission Kandahar in Canada, is a 2023 American spy action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune.

  4. Jun 25, 2024 · Kandahar, city in south-central Afghanistan. It is southern Afghanistan’s chief commercial center, situated at the junction of highways from Kabul, Herat, and Quetta (Pakistan). It was the headquarters of the Taliban in the mid-1990s.

  5. Kandahār ( Pashto: کندهار; Kandahār, Dari: قندهار; Qandahār) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south. It is surrounded by Helmand in the west, Uruzgan in the north and Zabul Province in the east.

  6. Kandahar ( Pashto: کندهار) is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in Southern Afghanistan. Kandahar is also the second largest city in Afghanistan after the capital Kabul, and was the first capital of the modern state of Afghanistan in the 18th century.

  7. Aug 14, 2021 · The loss of Kandahar — more than the Taliban’s ejection a month earlier from the nation’s capital, Kabul — marked the true end of the group’s harsh five-year rule over Afghanistan.

  8. Aug 13, 2021 · Kandahar, the southern city which fell to the Taliban on Thursday, is Afghanistan's second largest city, a major economic hub and one of the keys to overall control of the country.

  9. 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.

  10. Nov 2, 2023 · Kandahār is a border province connecting the southern region to Pakistan's Balouchistan province through Chaman and used to be the capital of Afghanistan until the late 17th century. It is considered to be an economic and political hub of Afghanistan and has always played a major role in the history of Afghanistan.

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