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The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021 ...
2024 Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing; ... On 21 March 2024, ISIS–K carried out a suicide bombing on a New Kabul Bank branch in Kandahar, Afghanistan around 8:00 AFT ...
Kandahar, the second-largest city of Afghanistan and the capital of Kandahar Province, was a heavily defended city guarded by Afghan National Army (ANA) forces. However, amidst the 2021 Taliban offensive, the Taliban had led brutal attacks on the city, wearing down the defenses and causing many in the ANA ranks to desert and flee due to fear of being captured by the Taliban. [10]
The city is located in southern Afghanistan. [2] [3] [4] Herat is the third largest city and is located in western Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif is the fourth largest city and is located in northern Afghanistan Jalalabad, the fifth-largest city, located in eastern Afghanistan. The only city in Afghanistan with over 1 million people is its capital ...
The US spent around $83bn to develop and sustain Afghan security forces from 2001 to 2021, according to reports from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which oversees ...
On 15 October 2021, a suicide bombing occurred at the Imam Bargah Mosque, [1] also known as Fatima Mosque, a Shia mosque, during Friday prayers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 70. [2] [3]
Kandahar (English: / ˈ k æ n d ə h ɑːr /; Pashto: کندهار, romanized: Kandahār; Dari: قندهار, romanized: Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on Arghandab River, at an elevation of 1,010 m (3,310 ft).
Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is an American mass murderer and former Army sniper who killed 16 Afghan civilians in a mass shooting in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar massacre.