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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.
Apr 17, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
