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U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and his wife Ellyn Dunford visit the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ** FILE **

U.S., NATO defense chiefs discuss war in Afghanistan, mull way forward

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

From left, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Robert Cardillo, prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pentagon intelligence chief warns of Afghan gains being lost

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Illustration on the continuing crisis in Afghanistan by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Afghanistan stalemate is better than failed state

By Gary Anderson

A damaged U.S. military vehicle is pictured at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini) ** FILE **

NIH: Long-term negative health effects in U.S. servicemen demand innovative treatments

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

An Army carry team places a transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Cameron Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio, into the transfer vehicle, Friday, April 28, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Thomas and Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill, killed during a raid on an Islamic State compound in eastern Afghanistan, may have died as a result of friendly fire during the opening minutes of the fierce, three-hour firefight, the Pentagon said Friday. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Abdul Hasib, head of ISIS in Afghanistan, killed by U.S., Afghan special forces

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this April 14, 2017, file photo, Afghan commandos arrive at Pandola village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

Deciding next step in Afghanistan comes with grim backdrop

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Pentagon: IS in Afghanistan leader killed in April raid

Associated Press

A Pakistani border security guard stands alert at Pakistan-Afghanistan border post, Chaman in Pakistan, Friday, May 5, 2017. Backed by artillery, Afghan security forces fired across the border on Pakistani census workers and troops escorting them on Friday, killing many people and drawing a response from the military, Pakistan said. On the Afghan side, officials reported that scores of people killed in the incident, a significant escalation of hostilities between the two neighbours. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai)

Pakistan dispatches supplies to southwest border villages

By ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2017, file photo, Afghan commandos arrive at Pandola village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

As Afghan stalemate grinds on, Trump mulls additional troops

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

An Army carry team places the transfer case containing the remains of Army 1st Lt. Weston Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Ga., into a transfer vehicle, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Lee died April 29, in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries while conducting security as part of advise and assist support to partnered forces as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump’s risk-free escape from Afghanistan quagmire

By Bruce Fein

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrives for a pretrial hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. A military judge could set a new timetable for the desertion case against Bergdahl at a pre-trial hearing nearly three years after the soldier's return from captivity. The judge has already scratched three previous trial dates amid delays over the exchange of classified information between prosecutors and defense lawyers. That process is expected to be a focus of a hearing on Friday, May 5, 2017, at Fort Bragg. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson, File)

The Latest: October trial date planned for Bowe Bergdahl

Associated Press

A Pakistani victim of cross border firing rests at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, May 5, 2017. Afghan security forces backed by artillery fired without provocation on Pakistani census workers and soldiers escorting them near the Afghan border, killing many civilians and wounding others, who included women and children, Pakistani army and government officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan-Afghan border cross-fire kills 15 on both sides

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

New Afghanistan troop plan goes to White House next week

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Gen. Robert Abrams, head of U.S. Army Forces Command, poses for a photo in his office at Fort Bragg, N.C., on April 21, 2017. The U.S. Army is authorizing $5,000 bonuses to woo top-performing troops into a new training brigade as the service once famous for shouldering the burden of America’s wars works to meet the growing demand for advisers in places ranging from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan and Africa. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Uncle Sam: We want you… to train others! $5K bonus offered

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. troops gather into Wardak province, eastern Afghanistan, in this Dec. 25, 2013, photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. may send up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Gen. Robert Abrams, head of U.S. Army Forces Command, poses for a photo in his office at Fort Bragg, N.C., on April 21, 2017. The U.S. Army is authorizing $5,000 bonuses to woo top-performing troops into a new training brigade as the service once famous for shouldering the burden of America’s wars works to meet the growing demand for advisers in places ranging from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan and Africa. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

U.S. Army to offer $5K bonuses for top troops to train others

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘War and the Art of Governance’

By Gary Anderson

Illustration on Trump's Afghanistan challenge by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Afghanistan fight rolls on despite Obama pullout

By Jed Babbin

Pastor: Illinois soldier killed in attack in Afghanistan

Associated Press

U.S. forces are seen Asad Khil village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 17, 2017. U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with the largest non-nuclear weapon every used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Friendly fire may have caused deaths of Army Rangers in eastern Afghanistan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times