U.N. council extends Afghanistan mandate (Reuters)

Council gives U.N. bigger role in Afghanistan (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council agreed on Thursday to give the United Nations a greater role in Afghanistan, where NATO-led forces are struggling...

Taliban urge factions to fight foreign forces (Reuters)
Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic movement has urged the war-torn nation's former mujahideen factions to join it in their campaign to drive out...

Taliban kill around 30 people after stopping bus (AP)
AP - Taliban militants stopped a bus traveling on Afghanistan's main highway through a wild and dangerous part of the country's south, captured some...

Worsening security affecting Afghan aid groups (AP)
AP - Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that...

Taliban take over villages near Kandahar (AP)
AP - Hundreds of Taliban fighters invaded villages just outside Afghanistan's second-largest city Monday, forcing NATO and Afghan troops to rush in...