My Way News - USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan; 4 killed
My Way News reports: "Taliban suicide attackers stormed a four-story house used by an American aid organization in north Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people before dying in a fierce, five-hour gunbattle with Afghan security forces."

Reuters - New U.S. commander pushes faltering Afghan war effort
Reuters reports: "The United States' top field commander arrived in Afghanistan on Friday to take charge of the faltering war, pledging to tackle the nine-year-old Taliban insurgency with a strategy he successfully pioneered in Iraq."