Soviet forces bombed the city of Kandahar in southern". Archived from the original on 12 January 2018 . Retrieved 11 January 2018. The Giant of Kandahar was allegedly loaded into a helicopter and whisked away, never to be seen again.

Wood, Michael (1997). In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23192-9 Avir, Zaman. "Taliban capture Herat and Kandahar, as U.S. sends troops to help evacuate embassy staff". CBC. CBC . Retrieved 12 August 2021.Also, construction of Hamidi Township in the Morchi Kotal area of the city began in August 2011. It is named after Ghulam Haider Hamidi, the mayor of Kandahar who was assassinated by militants in late July 2011. [75] Situated along the Kandahar-Uruzgan Highway in the northeast of the city, the new township will have 2,000 residential and commercial plots. Including new roads, schools, commercial markets, clinics, canals and other facilities. [76]

Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. pp.151, 162, 169–170. ISBN 978-93-80607-34-4. A man named Stephen Quayke called in to the “Coast to Coast” radio show to talk about a U.S Army squad that went missing in 2002. He claimed that the occurrence was still classified and the army refused to talk about it.Kandahar has been a frequent target for conquest because of its strategic location in Asia, controlling the main trade route linking the Indian subcontinent with the Middle East and Central Asia. [17] The territory became part of the Seleucid Empire after the death of Alexander. It is mentioned by Strabo that a treaty of friendship was established eventually between the Greeks and the Mauryas (Indians). [18] [19] The city eventually became part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC – 125 BC), and continued that way for two hundred years under the later Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BC – 10 AD).