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August 03, 2010

YouTube - Kandahar Air Base - Afghanistan



Produced July 2007 With many roads in Afghanistan too dangerous to use, helicopters play an integral part in NATO's strategy. The giant airbase in Kandahar [...]

October 17, 2010

Success In Kandahar?

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(Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images) KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, US Special Forces and [...]

October 17, 2010

NATO, Afghan Soldiers Strike Near Kandahar To Flush Out Taliban Fighters

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According to the New York Times, the assault involved NATO and about 800 Afghan soldiers, and was key part of the Kandahar operation to push the Taliban out [...]

October 05, 2010

Bombs Kill Nine, Mostly Children, In Afghan City Of Kandahar

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Up to five bombs killed nine people, mostly children, exploding in quick succession as crowds gathered late Tuesday in the southern [...]

August 03, 2010

Julie Kember - Entertaining The Troops In Afghanistan

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Video of my friend Julie entertaining the troops at Camp Baker, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Includes footage of Camp Baker and some of the men and women of the Australian Defence Forces. [...]

August 03, 2010

Riding With Ghosts - A Different Approach To Afghanistan

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Meet 'Team Canada' the last major aid group remaining in Kandahar takes a uniquely daring approach to the struggle for Afghanistan, operating almost invisibly on a mission to put tens of thousands of Afghans to work [...]

August 03, 2010

Who Needs Afghanistan? Sid Harth

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) ? A Taliban suicide squad armed with bombs and rockets attacked the largest US military base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, leaving one NATO soldier and two civilians injured. An initial rocket attack on Kandahar airfield which left the three wounded was followed by a suicide bomb attack that sparked an hour-long [...]

August 03, 2010

Afghan Regional Logistics Center Logisticians Supply Afghan

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghans and coalition forces are working shoulder-to-shoulder to supply Afghan National Police. The job of supplying the police is becoming more efficient with the building of the Kandahar Regional Logistics Center at the Joint Regional ANP Center. [...]

October 05, 2010

War In Afghanistan News 5 Oct 2010

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News reports provided by ISAF Joint Command regarding operations conducted in the following provinces: Khost, Ghazni, Helmand, Faryab, Kandahar and Zabul. [...]

August 03, 2010

Drug Use, Poor Discipline Afflict Afghanistan's Army | USMJP

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Use of marijuana, opium and heroin among Afghan troops, even while on patrol, is just one of the challenges coalition forces face in working with the Afghan National Army as they begin a major push against the Taliban in and around the southern city of Kandahar. [...]

August 03, 2010

Afghan, Coalition Doctors Treat Burned Boy

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Scalded by hot liquid that burned more than 45 percent of his body, a six-year-old Afghan boy is receiving expert treatment at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital [...]

August 04, 2010

When There?s Nothing On The Horizon You?ve Got Nothing ...

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 688-10 August 02, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Kyle B. Stout, 25, of Texarkana, Texas, died July 30 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an IED. [...]

August 03, 2010

When There?s Nothing On The Horizon You?ve Got Nothing ...

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 686-10 August 01, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Michael L. Stansbery, 21, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., died July 30 near Kandahar, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit . [...]

October 17, 2010

Report: Soldier Faces Trial, Not Death In Afghan Killings

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Washington - A US Army soldier who described the slayings of Afghan civilians in Kandahar will face a military trial but not the death penalty if convicted [...]

August 03, 2010

New Afghan Facilities Improve Counter-insurgency Efforts

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The Afghan National Police are actively engaged in fighting the counterinsurgency, to aid in this effort Afghans and coalition forces are rapidly building ANP facilities throughout the Kandahar Province. The area?s Afghan Border Police will soon have safe places they can call home after working along the Pakistani border. [...]

October 16, 2010

U.S. Hopes To Sow Afghan Peace With Farm Recovery

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An Afghan couple work in field near Camp Masoom Ghar in Panjwa'i district, south-west of Kandahar City May 16, 2010. By Christine Stebbins DES MOINES, [...]

October 05, 2010

Extend Afghan Mission, Soldiers' Families Urge

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The family members were in Kandahar on Monday as part of the Canadian Forces next of kin program, offered to anyone who has lost a loved one in Afghanistan. [...]

October 16, 2010

At War: When The 'Dust Blossom' Clears In Kandahar

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A sniper had been terrorizing our small outpost in the middle of the Zhari district in Kandahar for three weeks. This menace had created a phantom persona, [...]

October 05, 2010

Afghanistan Wartime Women March 2010

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A medical technician takes the blood pressure of an Afghan woman, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital near Kandahar, [...]

October 17, 2010

On The Frontlines Of The Battle To Save Wounded Soldiers' Lives

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Three wounded soldiers are carried to medical transport helicopter Dustoff 57 after an improvised explosive device blasted their vehicle in Kandahar [...]

October 05, 2010

Canada's Withdrawal Will Harm Afghan War Effort: US Commander

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The US Marine running current operations in southeastern Afghanistan for NATO expressed anger and immense frustration Tuesday at [...]

October 05, 2010

Blasts In Kandahar Kill 10

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Kandahar, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Nine children were among 10 people killed Tuesday when explosions rocked a residential area near the city of Kandahar, [...]

October 16, 2010

Afghan Civilian War Injuries Double In Kandahar Conflict

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The number of Afghan civilians hospitalised for serious war wounds has doubled in 12 months in Kandahar, the focus of an ongoing US-led campaign against [...]

October 05, 2010

Kandahar Operation Ineffective: Taliban

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KABUL: The Taliban in Afghanistan say a major military operation against them in Kandahar has had little impact. The website of the Taliban interviewed its [...]

October 16, 2010

US Troops Stumble Across American Lost In Kandahar

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soldiers and then diplomats that he had been held hostage for two months by the Taliban in the district of Zhari in the southern province of Kandahar. [...]


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