Port of entry at Shir Khan Bandar in Kunduz Province of Afghanistan, near the border with Tajikistan.

The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3, 000 ( depending on sources ) Taliban prisoners were shot and / or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U. S. and Junbish-i Milli soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan.

In late 2001, around 8, 000 Taliban fighters, including Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks as well as suspected members of al-Qaeda, surrendered to the Junbish-i Milli faction of Northern Alliance General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U. S. ally in the war in Afghanistan, after the siege of Kunduz.

Kunduz (; ) also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province.

* In Shindand, Afghanistan, the Taliban released the United Nations a 10-seater Beechcraft airplane they had forced to land the previous day, and had it flown to Taliban headquarters in Kandahar for repairs rather than allowing it to complete its flight to Kunduz.

* Sunday, November 25-Northern Alliance gained control of Kunduz, the last Taliban stronghold in Northern Afghanistan, but only after Pakistani aircraft rescue several thousand Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters and their military advisers.

Tajiks are the dominant ethnic group in Northern Afghanistan as well, and are also the majority group in scattered pockets elsewhere in the country, particularly urban areas such as Kabul, Mazar, Kunduz, Ghazni and Herat.

Kunduz ( Pashto / Persian: كندز ) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, centered on the city of Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, with an area of 8, 040 km square, and a population of about 820, 000.

Balkh Province is situated in the northern part of Afghanistan, bordering Uzbekistan in the North, Tajikistan in the North-East, Kunduz Province in the East, Samangan Province in the South-East, Sar-e Pol Province in the South-West and Jowzjan Province in the West.

Legend has it that once when he was watering his plants, a revered Sufi, Shaikh Ibrāhim Qundūzī ( or Kunduzi ) -- the name deriving from his birthplace, Kunduz in Afghanistan -- came to his orchard.

In Afghanistan, the Mohmands are found nearly everywhere, but mainly concentrated in Nangarhar, Kunduz and Kunar.

The city is located in Kunduz Province northern Afghanistan, at the confluence of the Oxus river ( today's Amu Darya ) and the Kokcha river, and at the doorstep of the Indian subcontinent.

Hicks was captured by a " Northern Alliance warlord " near Kunduz, Afghanistan, on or about 9 December 2001 and turned over to US Special Forces for US $ 1000 on 17 December 2001.

Arif Khan was a Pashtun leader from the village of Zakhel, Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Interestingly, Senlis is on record advocating reintroduction of poppy into areas of Afghanistan, specifically Kunduz, which has been poppy free for some time.

Ghulam Sarwar Nashir ( 1922 – 1984 ), an ethnic Pashtun, stepson and nephew of Sher Khan Nashir, was the President of Spinzar Cotton Company in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Sheberghan was the site of the Dasht-i-Leili massacre in December 2001 during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3, 000 ( depending on sources ) Taliban prisoners were shot and / or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by American and Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison.

Farhad ' Darya ' Nasher ( Pashto: فرهاد دریا b. September 22, 1962, from Kunduz, Afghanistan ) is an Afghan singer and composer, as well as a highly acclaimed music producer, and Good Will and Peace Ambassador for Afghanistan to the United Nations.

From the Taliban conquest in 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.

From the Taliban conquest of Kabul in September 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

From the Taliban conquest of Kabul in September 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.

In December 2001 during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan between 250 and 3, 000 ( depending on sources ) Taliban prisoners were shot and / or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U. S. and United Front ( troops loyal to Dostum ) soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison through the Dasht-i-Leili desert in Afghanistan.

The Taliban were restricted to a smaller and smaller region, with Kunduz, the last Taliban-held city in the north, captured on 26 November.

Throwing off his allegiance to Kabul when Timur Shah Durrani was marching against Sindh and Kashmir, Mizrab Bi grandson of Muhammad Bi ( old Chief of Kunduz ) uniting with Chief of Kubab attacked Kabad Khan, seized him and gave him to Mir Muhammad Shah who put him to death to avenge his father Mir Muhammad Shah returned to Badakhshan to find throne occupied by Bahadur Shah son of a former Chief who had taken Faizabad during captivity of Mir Muhammad Shah in Kunduz.

The Kokcha River traverses Badakhshan from southeast to northwest, and, with the Kunduz, drains all the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush west of the Dorah Pass.

The Taliban were restricted to a smaller and smaller region, with Kunduz, the last Taliban-held city in the north, captured on November 26.

Germany has 4000 soldiers stationed in the NATO-ISAF Kunduz province Provincial Reconstruction Team, along with Regional Command North.

After guarding the tank for a week, Hicks, with an LET acquaintance, travelled closer to the battle front in Kunduz where he joined others, including John Walker Lindh.

Other Sufi groups are found all across the north, with important centers in Maimana, Faryab Province, and in Kunduz.

He was a military commander and governor of Kunduz province.

His father's old enemy Kabad Khan whom patronage of Timur Shah Durrani ( successor of Ahmad Shah Durrani ) had elevated to Chiefship of Kunduz sent a force against Muhammad Shah under Kubadcha they wintered at Sang i Mohr and were joined by Kabad Khan in person.

Both chiefs then united and marched against Mir Ahmad Shah who was expelled to Kunduz.

In 1984, top resistance commanders operating the northern provinces of Takhar, Badakhshan, Balkh and Kunduz formed a council under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Muhammad Shah submitted and was at Kunduz detained 2 years.

He then wrote to Mir Atalik Beg, Chief of Kunduz, requesting his aid against Yusuf Ali Khan and Mir Shah to drive them out of Rustak.

At the beginning of the 19th century they belonged to Bukhara ; but under the emir Dost Mahommed the Afghans recovered Balkh and Tashkurgan in 1850, Akcha and the four western khanates in 1855, and Kunduz in 1859.

Lindh was captured on November 25, 2001, by Afghan Northern Alliance forces after his Al-Qaeda foreign fighters unit surrendered at Kunduz after retreating from Takar.

It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by roads to Kunduz in the east, Kabul in the south-east, Herat to the west and Uzbekistan to the north.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Kunduz Chief was unwilling to lose opportunity seized Turrah Baz Khan and sent both captives to Kunduz and annexed Badakhshan.

Khodai Nazar Beg Kataghan brother of Darab Bi expelled his 5 nephews from Kunduz and Aliwardi Beg Chief of Kurghan Tippa on pretence of avenging their wrongs attacked Khodai Nazar Beg and drove him from Kunduz.

In 1795, Emir Haidar of Emirate of Bukhara invaded Balkh and Kunduz annexed them and took Aliwardi Beg to Bukhara as prisoner.

Meanwhile, Kunduz was still under Emirate of Bukhara and the wandering sons of Darab Bi Kataghan decided to attack and retake the city which they did in 1810.

The Amir of Kunduz was now Mir Muhammad Murad Beg, one of the brothers.

He visited successively Khulam and Kunduz and was well received.