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.

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN -- U.S. Marines took control Friday of the heavily damaged airport outside the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, saying they hoped to rebuild it with the help of local ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Tribal fighters battled the Taliban at Kandahar airport Monday, and U.S. warplanes pounded the city and suspected terrorist hideouts in the towering peaks along the Pakistan ...