Afghanistan

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Afghan National Army soldiers rushing to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the PRT, Provincial Reconstruction Team, in Qalat, Zabul province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)

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** FILE ** - A member of the Afghan special forces, left, briefs soldiers after a training exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2013. A senior U.S. commander said Saturday, March 30, 2013 that American special operations forces have handed over their base in eastern Afghanistan’s Nirkh district to local Afghan commandos. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads a soccer ball made in Afghanistan as he meets with Afghan women members of a U.S.-backed women's entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Tuesday March 26, 2013. Kerry met again Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a day after they put on a show of unity as they tried to end recent bickering over anti-American comments made by the Afghan leader. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, POOL)

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The first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat, Lt. Col. Martha McSally, stands by her A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, in 2006. Now retired, she is offering advice to women’s advocates and the Pentagon on how best to integrate women into the previously all-male world of ground combat. (U.S. Air Force)

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Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on March 25, 2013. Kerry embarked on talks Monday with Karzai amid concerns Karzai may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with his anti-American rhetoric. The session came shortly after the U.S. military ceded control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan, ending a longstanding irritant in relations. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry (left) walks to a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (center) at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

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**FILE** Maj. Gen. James McConville speaks to troops from the 101st Airborne Division on on Feb. 19, 2013, as they prepare to leave Fort Campbell, Ky., for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)