TARIN KOT, Afghanistan - Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, played host to a major national and regional development shura (conference) Oct. 20, 2012. The conference, dubbed the "Unity of ...

Afghan officials deployed reinforcements to Tarin Kot, in Uruzgan province, and Afghan and U.S.-led NATO warplanes were carrying out airstrikes in an attempt to deter the latest Taliban advance ...

TARIN KOT, Afghanistan -- Government forces and insurgents are using access to irrigation water as leverage to pressure civilians into supporting them or force their opponents out of their villages ...

Heavy fighting as Taliban enters besieged Tarin Kot, Afghanistan. Central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province is under siege by Taliban militants in an attack to take control of the key district, ...

The Taliban has launched an offensive to take control of Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province. Its forces have entered the city and are engaged in heavy fighting with Afghan forces there. Tarin ...

The attack on the Tarin Kot police training facility is the latest in a series of strikes against Afghan police and intelligence headquarters. On Dec. 4, 2008, a three-man suicide team stormed the ...

Gul Agha served for six years as a commander in the Kandak Amniante Uruzgan, a private Afghan security force, before being appointed Tarin Kot district chief of police in October 2011, Provincial ...

The use of the rupee, however, is not limited to Uruzgan. It is used in several eastern and southern Afghan provinces bordering Pakistan. Currently, one dollar is traded for 78 afghanis while it is ...

Afghan residents in the Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province. The Taliban stormed into Tarin Kot on Sept. 8, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings as panicked residents scrambled ...

At least 19 people are dead in a violent clash between Afghan security troops and suspected Taliban gunmen in the government buildings of Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, as AP reports.

On one of the coldest days yet in an usually brutal winter, Rietdijk, the Dutch reconstruction chief, met with Uruzgan Gov. Assadullah Hamdam in his ramshackle compound in Tarin Kot.

TARIN KOT, Afghanistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province is under siege by Taliban militants in a coordinated attack to take control of the key district, authorities said ...