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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.
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.
Jul 9, 2021 · Kandahar Province, the main city in Afghanistan’s ethnic Pashtun heartland in the south, was the birthplace of the Taliban during the country’s civil war in the 1990s.
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. After the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, it became a base for U.S. military strikes.
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.
Jul 13, 2011 · BBC News looks at the history and make-up of strategically important Kandahar, one of Afghanistan's most turbulent provinces.
Aug 12, 2021 · With both Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, in their hands, the Taliban now effectively control southern Afghanistan. Over the past week, the insurgents have toppled...
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.
May 26, 2021 · In the last six months, its fighters blitzed into districts around Kandahar province — Arghandab, Panjwayi, Maiwand and Zhari — as part of a nationwide campaign.
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