...two-mile area between the airport and Kandahar, the last city under Taliban control. "That area is a no-man's land," said Pacha, a taxi driver. "There is fighting. We can't go there." Another tribal leader, Mohammed Anwar, reported airstrikes...

...unilaterally observe a truce. The explosion, heard for miles around the city, went off around 11 p.m. Friday in front of the Pacha nightclub in a former aquarium building that faces a promenade lined with restaurants, bars, hotels and office towers...