Afghanistan: Troops chasing Taliban from Kandahar

KABUL, Afghanistan – A military offensive in southern Afghanistan is chasing the Taliban out of their stronghold in Kandahar province, the Afghan president’s half brother said. “Most of them I believe left before the military operation started,” Ahmed Wali Karzai told The Associated Press late Wednesday. “They are running … I don’t know (where).” NATO and Afghan forces began an operation to wrest control of Kandahar province in July, an attempt to regain the initiative in the nine-year war by taking the battle to the heartland of the insurgency along the Pakistani border. “Things are changing very well. There’s a lot of progress in…

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Afghanistan: Troops chasing Taliban from Kandahar

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