Story by Staff Sgt. Brandon McIntosh | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 09.11.2013
Neighboring district elders and leaders met with provincial officials Sept. 7 in Kandahar province to share security ideas and solutions....
Story by Spc. Tyffani Collins | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 07.25.2013
Insurgents fired several 82mm mortars towards Khakrez District Center, close to the country’s third holiest site, Shah Agha Shrine, in Darvishan village, Khakrez district, Kandahar province, July 25....
Story by Spc. Tyffani Collins | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 05.27.2013
An insurgent-emplaced improvised explosive device exploded, killing two civilians and wounding two others in the vicinity of Arowgh village, Khakrez district, Kandahar province, May 27....
Story by Spc. Tyffani Collins | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 05.20.2013
District leaders, teachers, school children, and more than 75 village elders from Arowgh and surrounding areas, gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a new school in Zaylabad village, Khakrez district, Kandahar province, May 20....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 07.04.2011
At least eight insurgents were killed after they attempted an attack against coalition forces in the Khakrez District of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, July 1. ...
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 06.25.2011
Afghan National Army special forces, along with U.S. Army Special Forces with Special Operations Task Force - South Afghanistan discovered and destroyed two improvised explosive devices in the Khakrez district of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, June 24....
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....
