7 Bismillah, a 6-year-old Afghan boy, works at a brick kiln to support his family in Kandahar, earning around $2 a day, as the world marks the World Day Against Child Labor on June 12.

McChrystal described the city in his assessment of the war last August as the "key geographic objective" of the Quetta Shura Taliban, the main faction led by Mullah Omar.

A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group in the Afghan city of Kandahar killed three people on March 21, said Taliban authorities, while a hospital source put the death toll at 20. The ...