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- Kandahar Province is where the Taliban were born. Southern Afghanistan isn't just the key to their origins and self-image. It's also the source of their greatest paradox.
www.nzz.ch › english › kandahar-is-the-birthplace-of-the-taliban-and-its-drug-problem-ldKandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban — and its drug problem
Oct 5, 2021 · Kandahar is the heart of the Taliban, and of their paradoxical addiction to opium. Kandahar Province is where the Taliban were born. Southern Afghanistan isn't just the key to their origins...
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Aug 18, 2021 · The city of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest, is strategically and historically important. It is the location of a major, sprawling base heavily invested in by the U.S. that is adjacent...
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.
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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.
Jul 9, 2021 · By Adam Nossiter. July 9, 2021. KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban forces on Friday penetrated Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, in a new phase of a sweeping insurgent offensive that has...
Kandahar is the center of gravity of the Quetta Shura Taliban’s efforts in Afghanistan. The paper demonstrates why Coalition forces have hitherto inadequately responded to the Taliban in Kandahar, and explains why ISAF will most likely allocate additional forces to the districts around Kandahar City in 2010.
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.
