Afghanistan

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Afghan National Army soldiers march in the Sangin district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, June 13, 2013. One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are taking the lead for security nationwide, bringing the moment of truth on the question of whether they are ready to fight an insurgency that remains resilient after nearly 12 years of conflict. That question is especially pressing here in this border region, where insurgents regularly ambush government forces and control parts of the countryside. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Afghan men rush a wounded woman to receive treatment, after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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Credit: Marines watch proudly as their Afghan National Army students graduate from a class on using 60mm mortars at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan on May 9th, 2013. Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times

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An Afghan National Army soldier graduates from a course on 60mm mortar systems, taught by coalition instructors at the Regional Corps Battle School on May 9, 2013 at Camp Shorabak in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Waliur Rehman (center), the Pakistani Taliban's No. 2 leader, talks with The Associated Press during an interview in Shawal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border in Pakistan on July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Leroy Petry, who lost his right hand in 2008 while serving in Afghanistan, salutes as the flag is displayed prior to a Memorial Day baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Seattle Mariners, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Leroy Petry, who lost his right hand in 2008 while serving in Afghanistan, salutes as the flag is displayed prior to a Memorial Day baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Seattle Mariners, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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** FILE ** In this May 23, 2013, file photo Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., right, take part in a Capitol Hill press conference in Washington to express criticism of President Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan, terrorism, and the Guantanamo Bay prison. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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An Afghan national army commando inspects a cell phone during a mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2012. Coalition special operations forces advised the more than 100 commandos as they searched an Afghan village for weapons caches and known anti-Afghanistan forces. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Clayton Weis/Released)

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**FILE** NATO soldiers walk under country member flags at a NATO base at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 30, 2013. (Associated Press)