Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s controversial brother, rode the tide of history from an Afghan refugee to Chicago restaurateur to powerbroker. His killing on Tuesday has sent shockwaves across the country.
Ahmed Wali Karzai (pictured), a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a powerful figure in southern Afghanistan, has been assassinated at his home in Kandahar, local officials say.
Fierce fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban raged on for a second day in the city of Kandahar on Sunday, following a string of deadly attacks by insurgents targeting key government and police buildings.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a wave of coordinated attacks targeting government buildings in the key Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, which has left at least two people dead and 29 wounded.
Afghan authorities said Tuesday they had recaptured 65 of the nearly 500 prisoners who escaped from a Kandahar jail a day earlier. The inmates escaped through a kilometre-long tunnel that the Taliban said took five months to build.
At least 478 prisoners, including many senior Taliban figures, escaped from a prison in Kandahar province on Sunday using a 320-metre-long tunnel into the prison that had been dug over several months.
Abdul Latif Ashna, the deputy governor of Afghanistan's restive Kandahar province, has been killed in a suicide bombing, officials say. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.
Five bombs exploded in succession in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Tuesday, killing nine people. The Taliban consider Kandahar their stronghold in the nine-year insurgency, but have not claimed responsibility.
A car bomb exploded in central Kandahar Thursday, wounding at least six people in the latest in a spate of attacks on the Taliban stronghold that has been earmarked as the focus of a forthcoming offensive by NATO and Afghan forces.
A major US-led offensive on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah is a "tactical prelude" to a larger operation in Kandahar, a senior US official said on Friday. Kandahar city, in southern Afghanistan, was once the Taliban's capital.
