NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from Kandahar International Airport in southern Afghanistan. This week, United States Marines handed over control of the airport to the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

CAMP RHINO, SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN, Dec. 14 (Friday) -- Hundreds of Marines swept into the Kandahar airport before sunrise, saying they would restore air links to the city and jump-start the local ...

After a single blast on a police whistle, a four-man color guard raised the flag on a makeshift pole in the glass-scattered courtyard of the main terminal building at the airport outside the southern ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan tribal groups, aided by heavy U.S. airstrikes, have moved closer to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, claiming Saturday night that their fighters had entered the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says that at least six people, including five female government workers, have been shot and killed in southern Kandahar province. Samim Khpolwak, spokesman ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A U.S. Marine who lost a foot to a land mine was evacuated from Afghanistan, a spokesman said Monday, as planeloads of troops and equipment flew into the new Marine base at ...

Tribal fighters battled the Taliban at Kandahar airport Monday as U.S. warplanes pounded the city and took aim at Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader. Fida Mohammed, a farmer who fled ...

Troops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division took control of the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan from the Marine Corps yesterday, a transfer signaling the intention of American forces to remain in ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States hit Afghanistan with a third day of airstrikes, crushing Taliban air defenses, radars and airports to the extent that American warplanes can fly virtually unchallenged ...

As fighting intensified around Kandahar, tribal forces under commander Gul Agha said they seized a guard tower at the corner of the airport and battled Taliban forces on the airport grounds. U.S.

As fighting intensified around Kandahar, tribal forces under commander Gul Agha said they seized a guard tower at the corner of the airport and battled Taliban forces on the airport grounds. U.S.