Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 05.01.2011
Taliban insurgents executed an Afghan village elder on the same day that Afghan Local Police located a lost girl and reunited her with her family in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, May 1....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 04.22.2011
Afghan National Army Special Forces, assisted by members of Special Operations Task Force – South, have safely neutralized six IEDs in Kandahar province's Maiwand district in less than one month. Three of those IEDs were found thanks to the help of tips by villagers living nearby....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 04.09.2011
Afghan National Police safely neutralized an improvised explosive device discovered along a well-travelled road while patrolling southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, April 9....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 03.21.2011
Not since the 1970s was there as large a turnout for a new year’s celebration as the one witnessed March 21 at the Khakrez District Center in Kandahar Province. More than 3,500 Afghans celebrated at the district center, coming from as far away as Kabul and Herat to ring in the Persian New Year, known to Afghans as “Nowruz.”...
Story by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Crisp | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 02.05.2011
U.S. Special Forces soldiers with Special Operations Task Force – South killed two insurgents, wounded seven and destroyed an improvised explosive device making facility in Khakrez District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan while on a patrol to meet village residents Feb. 5....
