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It was perhaps twenty minutes after the call to prayer had sounded and we were breaking the fast, sitting on the floor around a plastic sheet with plates of rice and meat, when I was knocked sideways to the ground.It......more

Please see the previous blogpost for more on this story, but here is Felix Kuehn (my friend and colleague in Kandahar) on CBC Radio talking an hour or two after tonight's bombing:   Just press play on the Houndbite bar......more

I'm sitting in Dubai at the moment so can't claim to be the man on the ground for tonight's bombing in Kandahar City.  That dubious honour goes to Felix Kuehn (@felixkuehn on Twitter and www.felixkuehn.com for his blog).  I just......more

It’s the middle of summer down here in Kandahar, with temperatures peeking around 50 degree celsius by noon.  In the run up to Afghanistan’s second presidential and provincial council elections foreign troops stepped up their efforts, launching multiple operations to......more

So it finally happened.  The election that we've been waiting for and looking forward to at least since last winter took place today all over the country.  I'll refrain from writing anything about the rest of the country.  There......more

For outsiders, Kandahar was never really somewhere you could fall in love with.  You know the kind of thing I mean: places people went to honeymoon, places with a certain ineluctable quality to them... Back in the seventies, when Kandahar......more

Is Afghanistan at risk of being forgotten by the outside world?  Not at the moment, you might think, what with lots of print generated each day at the hands of foreign reporters.  Obama, too, is considering his own surge of......more

I wrote this oped with a colleague of mine in the hope it might get some coverage and - in part - help to stop the long march towards tribal militias that are being proposed as a 'solution' for Afghanistan. Nobody took it, so we thought we'd put it up here......more

In case you were wondering what's happening outside the city in the districts, here's a story and a half. Ghorak district is north-west of the city, and not especially important in itself. Off the top of my head, it was......more

Went out to Daman district (Kandahar still) yesterday evening for a walk in the countryside. Shoran Dam is an area that has almost total sympathy with the Taliban, so we didn't stay too long, but long enough to enjoy......more