Afghan officials: Taliban overrun key district in Helmand province

Helmand is important Taliban base; produces most of world's opium which helps fund the insurgency

• Dec 21, 2015

Spanish police officer hurt in Kabul car bomb attack

Taliban claims responsibility for car bomb in an area with embassies and other diplomatic buildings

• Dec 11, 2015

U.S. Embassy in Kabul warns of imminent attack

Americans in Afghan capital urged to use extreme caution for the next two days after election official targeted in suicide attack

• Nov 30, 2015

U.S. servicemen suspended over Afghan hospital attack

Attack in Kunduz on Doctors Without Borders facility was result of egregious series of human and technical failures, U.S. commander says

• Nov 25, 2015

Afghans vent rage at ISIS -- and their leaders

Bodies of terror victims carried through Kabul streets, but angry chants also target the men blamed for failing to stop the carnage

• Nov 11, 2015

Taliban now killing each other over succession: official

ISIS affiliate aligns itself with breakaway Taliban group in intense fighting in Afghanistan's south over replacement for Mullah Omar

• Nov 8, 2015

Report reveals grisly details of deadly U.S. airstrike on hospital

Doctors Without Borders says shrapnel from assault on Afghan hospital decapitated worker, killed patient fleeing in wheelchair

• Nov 5, 2015

Pentagon spent $43 million on gas station in Afghanistan

A report found the station cost nearly 140 times what comparable stations in the region did, and it still may not work

• Nov 3, 2015

Afghan official defends request for U.S. strike on hospital

Obama personally apologized and U.S. commander said it was a "mistake," but now Afghan defense chief claims facilty was "safe place" for militants

• Oct 19, 2015

More U.S. troops may stay in Afghanistan after 2016

A recent Taliban resurgence may prompt President Obama to change his mind about pulling nearly all U.S. forces out by next year, CBS News has learned

• Oct 14, 2015

Taliban say they are withdrawing from Kunduz in Afghanitsan

Retaking the strategic northern town was a key moment for Afghan government, as they also claim to smash major al Qaeda camp

• Oct 13, 2015

Dozens still missing after U.S. strike on Afghan hospital

Official death toll stands at 22 after American military mistakenly targeted facility run by NGO, but that could double

• Oct 8, 2015

Did U.S. forces overstep authority in Afghan strike?

Obama said force could be used under 3 specific circumstances, and it's unclear if any were met before deadly hospital strike

• Oct 7, 2015

U.S. commander: Afghans requested strike that killed 22 at hospital

U.S. says Afghan forces reported being under Taliban fire; Doctors Without Borders calls claim "outrageous"

• Oct 5, 2015

Calm returns to Kunduz, pressure mounts on U.S. over airstrike

Afghan security forces back in control of key city after bloody 3-day Taliban siege, but aid group wants to know who blew up its hospital

• Oct 5, 2015

Hunt for clues in Afghan crash that killed 6 U.S. airmen

U.S. Air Force says "high confidence" enemy fire not involved in downing American C-130 at Jalalabad airfield, Taliban claim otherwise

• Oct 2, 2015

Afghan forces apparently reclaim city from Taliban

President Ashraf Ghani warns that the "good news" from Kunduz "should not make us complacent"

• Oct 1, 2015

Report: Military wants shift in U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan

U.S. commanders reportedly want to keep more American troops in Afghanistan than what Obama has planned

• Sep 30, 2015

As Taliban take key city, ISIS attacks Afghan troops too

Afghan president urges nation to trust Afghan troops and not give in to "fear and terror"

• Sep 29, 2015

U.S. military launches strike on Afghan city taken by Taliban

Airstrike on Kunduz conducted "in order to eliminate a threat to the force," spokesman for U.S. and NATO missions in Afghanistan says

• Sep 29, 2015

Taliban seize first city since U.S.-led 2001 invasion

Coordinated attacks have given the militants the city of Kunduz, and freed hundreds of prisoners; Taliban call victory "a bitter reality" for Kabul

• Sep 28, 2015

Taliban attacks take high toll on Afghan troops

Series of overnight attacks, including one so-called "insider attack" by an Afghan soldier, have left almost 2 dozen dead

• Sep 22, 2015

Taliban frees hundreds in deadly Afghan prison raid

Almost all inmates at compound in Ghazni province, south of Kabul, freed in brazen attack spearheaded by suicide bomber

• Sep 14, 2015

New leader "a modern face among the Taliban?"

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has done things his predecessor never did, raising hopes he may help usher in peace

• Sep 10, 2015

Afghan police killed in alleged NATO airstrike

Officials in Afghanistan say international military coalition hit cops during operation against drug smugglers in Helmand province

• Sep 7, 2015

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