A few days after my story about the efforts to reopen the Pir Mohammed School — closed by the Taliban in 2007 — in the Kandahar province ... Will the local population, which fears the Taliban ...

Photograph by Christopher Beam. A Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kandahar, the second largest population center in Afghanistan and the "spiritual birthplace" of the Taliban, where ...

History shows that whoever secures Kandahar, Afghanistan's historic capital ... in Kabul rely upon to hold together a restive population as conflict rages about them. This has particular resonance ...

NATO commanders are boasting of dramatic progress just weeks into the U.S.-led push into Taliban strongholds around Kandahar province ... would connect neighboring population centers and take ...