In city of Kandahar.

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Car Bomb Kills Nine in Afghanistan

KABUL — At least five Afghan police officers and two civilians were killed Sunday when a car bomb was detonated outside the main police headquarters in Kandahar, officials said. Another 19 people, six of them police officers, were wounded in the blast, provincial officials said. Children were also among the victims. Read full article > >

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Car bomb kills seven outside police headquarters in Kandahar

At least five police officers and two civilians have died in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan It’s a few days before Christmas, and Staff Sgt. Andre Vappie is showing pictures of himself dressed in a red suit for the “Santa Claus 5K Run” that took place a few weeks ago at the U.S. military base here. As he scrolls through the photos, you can see at least 50 other guys in Santa suits celebrating the holiday season in this muscular way, far from home. Read full article > >

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Joy to the troops

TEHRAN — Iran displayed an aircraft Thursday that it said was a U.S. spy drone brought down last week by an “electronic ambush,” a feat that prompted boasts of Iranian technological prowess in the face of increased hostility from the West. Iranian state television used its main newscast to unveil the drone , identified as a stealth RQ-170 Sentinel made by Lockheed Martin. The drone was shown in a video at an undisclosed location where two men in military fatigues could be seen walking around it. The belly of the plane was covered with banners saying, “We’ll trample America underfoot” and “The U.S. cannot do a damn thing.” Read full article > >

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Iran displays plane identified as downed U.S. spy drone

Seven civilians, including six children, have been killed in a Nato air strike in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, local officials say.

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Afghan children ‘killed by Nato’

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned the killing of six children and an adult in the southern part of the country that local officials blame on a NATO airstrike. Karzai’s office said in a statement that local officials said NATO was responsible for the incident in the Zharzai district of Kandahar province. Read full article > >

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Afghan president condemns killing of 6 children, 1 man in southern Afghanistan

About one hour from Kandahar, Afghanistan, the artist walked with soldiers and bomb-sniffing dogs on the lookout for the enemy and minefields. There were inclines of dirt to hike over and grapevines to avoid. “There was actually a vineyard with grapes growing along dirt mounds,” recalls Master Sgt. Martin Cervantez. “The soldiers were doing patrols, up and over. But they were steep, and the dog handler had to lift the dogs.” Read full article > >

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Army artist goes into battle with a sketchbook and camera

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is planning to start withdrawing troops from this volatile southern city, shifting them instead to neighboring rural areas even as the Taliban shows it is capable of penetrating the city to attack, according to U.S. and Afghan military officials. The move is not without risk, as reclaiming Kandahar — the homeland of many Taliban leaders — still motivates the insurgency. Assassins have carried out a ruthless campaign against government officials in the city over the past year, and Kandahar’s vulnerabilities were on display as recently as Thursday, when Taliban fighters launched multi-pronged attacks on two U.S. bases. The attacks killed three Afghans and wounded six Americans. Read full article > >

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U.S. troops to begin leaving Kandahar

KABUL — Taliban fighters launched separate attacks on two U.S. bases in Kandahar on Thursday, exploding a car bomb outside a military outpost west of the city and firing rocket-propelled grenades at another garrison downtown, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The violence resulted in few casualties, but it indicated that the Taliban still has the ambition and ability to take on the symbols of American power in southern Afghanistan. U.S. officials have been encouraged by months of declining violence in Kandahar city and some of the surrounding farmlands, but the insurgents have carried out high-profile assassinations in recent months that have tested the emerging stability . Read full article > >

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Taliban fighters attack 2 U.S. bases in Kandahar

Three separate blasts in Helmand and Kandahar Provinces left at least seven civilians dead, four of them children, and wounded dozens more, Afghan officials said.

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Suicide Attacks Escalate in Afghanistan Before End of Ramadan

A bus careers off the road in near the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, killing 35 people and injuring 27 more.

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Afghanistan bus accident kills 35

A bus careers off the road in near the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, killing 35 people and injuring 27 more.

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Afghanistan bus accident kills 35

A bus careers off the road in near the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, killing 35 people and injuring 27 more.

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Afghanistan bus accident kills 35

A soldier with a passion for martial arts from Baltimore was killed Thursday in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was in hit a roadside explosive, according to authorities. Army Spec. Jameel T. Freeman, 26, died in Kandahar province with four other soldiers after an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle, according to Department of Defense officials. The soldiers’ remains were flown to Dover Air Force Base on Saturday. All five were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, N.Y. Read full article > >

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Baltimore soldier killed in Afghanistan