Panjwai is the birthplace of the Taliban movement and has traditionally been a stronghold of the Taliban . It has been an area of heavy fighting and was the focus of a military surge in 2010 , which brought a more than two-fold increase in airstrikes , night raids into Afghan homes , insurgent casualties , and a six-fold increase in special forces operations throughout Afghanistan . Fighting in Panjwai and adjacent Zhari , Arghandab and Kandahar districts was particularly intense . Conflict between the civilian population and U.S. forces was exacerbated by the wholesale destruction of some villages by U.S. forces , mass arrests , murder of civilians by rogue units , and high casualties from improvised explosive devices ( IEDs )
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Maywand District murders
Kandahar massacre