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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

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

I'm reading Kaplan's Soldiers of God at the moment, and came across this nice little gem:"In the January 20, 1980, issue of the Village Voice, the left-wing writer Alexander Cockburn employed such a rationale to justify the Soviet invasion of......more

Tribal elders in Kandahar like to explain how they're waiting to see what will happen before committing themselves to any particular 'side'.  Well, we've all been waiting to hear from President Obama on his grand plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan......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

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

Just like last year, Mullah Omar, the sort-of Taliban leader, has released a message on the occasion of 'eid, the Muslim religious festival. Lots of interesting things in what he says, so you ought to read the full text (available......more

Received one of the irregular news update bulletins from Kavkaz Center just now. Was just googling to find the precise details of a reported press conference held by Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Mansur in Somalia this week. For more on Sheikh......more