Sources: Xinhua
Three suicide bombers attack a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 47 people and injuring 70 others. The explosions occur at the main door and inside the mosque. Taliban authorities later arrived and secured the mosque. Taliban interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti says that authorities are currently collecting evidence in order to determine responsibility for the bombing. 2021-10-15
A suicide bomber kills three people when he drives a military vehicle packed with explosives near the provincial governor's residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims responsibility. 2020-07-8
Afghan general and Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai is assassinated by one of his bodyguards during a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound with U.S. general Austin S. Miller. Gen. Miller escaped unharmed according to officials while the governor was critically injured. The Taliban claims responsibility. 2018-10-18
A bomb explodes at a market in the Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least four people. 2013-08-5
Kandahar massacre: The United States pays the Afghanistan government $50,000 for every person murdered during the Kandahar massacre. 2012-03-25
Three people are killed in attacks on the offices of the International Relief and Development (IRD) in the Afghan city of Kandahar. 2011-10-31
Gunmen attack the compound of the Governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province and other facilities in the city of Kandahar with two dead and 29 injured. 2011-05-7
An explosion rocks Taliban birthplace Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding eight people. 2010-09-30
Two Canadian medics are killed in Afghanistan, 20 kilometres west of Kandahar City in Panjwaii District. 2010-06-27
At least 11 civilians and two US soldiers are killed in southern Afghanistan: 9 of the civilian deaths are in a roadside bomb on a minibus in Kandahar. 2010-06-11