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    The Battle of Kandahar, 1 September 1880, was the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan was fought between...
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  • Battle of Kandahar may refer to: Battle of Kandahar (1880), the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War Battle of Kandahar (2001), the fall...
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  • The Battle of Kandahar was an attack by Taliban forces on May 7, 2011, in the city of Kandahar. The battle was the biggest Taliban offensive of 2011,...
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    The Battle of Kandahar began on 9 July 2021, as Taliban insurgents assaulted the city to capture it from the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). After...
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    The Fall of Kandahar took place in 2001 during the War in Afghanistan. After the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Herat, Kandahar was the last major...
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    Kandahar (English: /ˈkændəhɑːr/; Pashto: کندهار, romanized: Kandahār; Dari: قندهار, romanized: Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south...
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    solidify ties, marched towards Kandahar which was under siege by a Mongol army and defeated them after a two-day battle.: 127  In autumn 1221, he then...
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    were awarded for acts of valour performed during the battle and during the retreat to Kandahar. Both medals went to members of E/B Battery, RHA. One was...
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    Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880. For his services, Roberts again received the thanks of Parliament, and was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the...
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    through Sindh to Kandahar, besieging it from 10 May 1834 until 1 July 1834. Shah Shujah would be defeated by the Barakzai rulers of Kandahar and Kabul. Following...
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  • Kandahar, titled Mission Kandahar in Canada, is a 2023 American spy action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune...
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    and defeated the British Indian Army at the Battle of Maiwand. Following his defeat at the Battle of Kandahar, Ayub Khan was deposed and exiled to British...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Takur Ghar
    The Battle of Takur Ghar was a short but intense military engagement between United States special operations forces and al-Qaeda insurgents fought in...
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    The Battle of Wanat took place on July 13, 2008, when around 200 Taliban insurgents attacked American troops stationed near Quam, in the Waygal district...
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    205th Corps (category Corps of Afghanistan)
    Taliban offensive and in Battle of Kandahar. Previous Afghan Army formations in the south of Afghanistan, more specifically in Kandahar, were the 2nd Army Corps...
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    British at the battle of Maiwand. The campaign ended in September 1880 when the British decisively defeated Ayub Khan outside Kandahar. Abdur Rahman Khan...
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  • Muhammad Yousuf Wafa (category Governors of Kandahar Province)
    are historically rooted in southeastern Afghanistan, namely Kandahar where the throne of the Durrani Empire was established in 1747. Wafa reportedly maintains...
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    the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1879–1880. As result of the British victory at the Battle of Kandahar in 1880 the treaty was reaffirmed and the British appointed...
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    The siege of Kandahar began when Nader Shah's Afsharid army invaded southern Afghanistan to topple the last Hotaki stronghold of Loy Kandahar, which was...
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  • Operation Red Wings (category Military operations of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) involving the United States)
    informally referred to as the Battle of Abbas Ghar, was a joint military operation conducted by the United States in the Pech District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan...
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  • During the Mughal–Safavid war of 1649–1653, the Mughal Empire laid siege to the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan three times. All three sieges failed, and...
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    Kandahār (Pashto: کندهار; Kandahār, Dari: قندهار; Qandahār) is one of the thirty four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country...
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    at the Battle of Maiwand and besieged Kandahar. Roberts led a force from Kabul to Kandahar that defeated the rebels at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September...
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    the city, which provided the first solid foothold from which Kabul and Kandahar could be reached. US Army Civil Affairs Teams from the 96th Civil Affairs...
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    Maiwand, in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. During the summer of 2010, the military charged five members of the platoon with the murders of three Afghan...
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    also referred to as Kandahar International Airport (Pashto: د کندهار نړيوال هوايي ډګر), and by some military officials as Kandahar Airfield, KAF) (IATA:...
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    by Afghan forces. On reaching Kandahar, Roberts decisively beat the Afghans on 1 September 1880 at the Battle of Kandahar and lifted the siege. The war...
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    involved in the Battle of Givenchy, Battle of La Basse, Battle of Armentiers, Battle of the Somme (1916), Battle of Flers–Courcelette and Battle of Cambrai (1917)...
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    The Conquest of Kandahar took place on 14 November 1855, and its consolidation lasted as long as September 1856. Following the death of Kohandil Khan,...
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    followed by their victory at the Battle of Kandahar, which led to Abdur Rahman Khan becoming the new emir and the start of friendly British-Afghan relations...
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