UN re-evaluates Afghan mission after bloody attack

Traumatized UN staff in Afghanistan were under orders to stay home Thursday, one day after Taliban militants stormed a guest house in the capital and killed eight people in a brazen attack that is forcing the world body to re-evaluate its mission in the war-ravaged nation.

• UN workers scramble over roofs during Kabul attack
• 4 US troops die in Afghan chopper collision
• Taliban kill 6 drivers, set fire on 6 trucks in E. Afghanistan
• Bomb blast kills civilian in Afghanistan
• Illiteracy undermines Afghan army
• 5 US troops killed in Afghan violence
• NATO soldier killed in E. Afghanistan
• Car bomb attack outside Kabul airport
• Taliban confirms death of Mehsud: TV
• 41 killed in Afghan car bomb blasts
• Pakistani Taliban headed by deputy chief
• 3 militants killed in Kabul before vote
• Gunfire erupts in Kabul ahead of vote
• Key facts and figures about Afghan election
• UN chief slams suicide attack in Kabul
• 3 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan
• Bombs kill 14 civilians in S Afghanistan
• Militants kill police chief in N Afghanistan
• 50 Afghan drug lords on Pentagon 'hit list'
• UN: Violence hampering Afghan vote
• UN: Afghan civilian deaths up 24 percent
• Troops killed in deadliest month of Afghan war
• International troops mistakenly kill 2 Afghan police
• Heavy firing erupts in SE Afghan city
• Terror surge seen if Afghan effort abandoned
• Afghan blast kills 4 GIs in deadliest month for US
• July is deadliest for US-led forces in Afghanistan
• 4 US soldiers killed in Afghan bomb blasts
• Help us or we'll grow opium, say Afghan villagers

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• Office of President of Afghanistan
• Official Website of Dr. Abdullah Abdullah
• Independent Election Commission
• Electoral Complaints Commission
• UNDP's ELECT Project