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President Barack Obama addresses troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress: Order troops home under war powers resolution

By Bruce Fein

A Pakistani soldier carries an injured child who was airlifted from Chitral following Monday's deadly earthquake, at Peshawar airbase in Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Rescuers are struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day's earthquake rose to hundreds. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Afghan quake death toll rises further as survivors await aid

By Mohammad Yousaf and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

A Pakistani boy examines a house damaged caused by massive earthquake in Mingora, the main town of Swat valley, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Officials say rescuers are struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

Afghanistan, Pakistan areas hit by earthquake as death toll reaches 339

By Riaz Khan and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Oct. 24, 2015, file photo. According to Atmar, Afghanistan is in danger of once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists wanting to carry out attacks like the Sept. 11, 2001, atrocities in the United States, and needs the help of the U.S. and NATO countries to ensure victory in its fight to eliminate these groups from within its borders. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan security adviser warns of risk from Islamic State, al Qaeda

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Patients are brought to a hospital after severe earthquake was felt in Mingora, the main town of Pakistan Swat valley, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake in northern Afghanistan rocked cities across South Asia. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

7.5-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan rocks South Asia; more than 150 killed

By Lynne O'Donnell and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a No Labels Problem Solver convention Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) ** FILE **

Donald Trump: ‘I’ve never said’ we made a mistake going into Afghanistan

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, photo, Christopher Stokes, the general director of the medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, which is also known by its French abbreviation MSF, stands amid the charred remains of the organization's hospital, after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Stokes says the “extensive, quite precise destruction” of the bombing raid casts doubt on American military assertions that it was a mistake. (Najim Rahim via AP)

Masoom Stanekzai, Afghan defense minister, says Taliban hid in bombed hospital

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Wayne Simmons. (Screen grab from Fox News video on YouTube)

Wayne Simmons, accused fraudster, says he has proof of CIA work

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to a camera, during a Commonwealth of Independent States, former Soviet republics, summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Putin on Friday warned leaders of Central Asian nations of a possible militant incursion from Afghanistan. (Alexei Nikolsky, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin: Russian strikes in Syria killed hundreds of militants

By Nataliya Vasilyeva and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter, after speaking about Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Obama announced that he will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and instead ensuring he hands the conflict off to his successor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Veterans call for end to war in Afghanistan, condemn hospital bombing

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama will maintain a force of 5,500 troops in Afghanistan beyond when his presidency ends in 2017, which is less than half the six of what top military commanders recommend for the long-embattled country. (Associated Press)

Obama ignores generals on troop levels for unprecedented 6th time in Afghanistan, Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Francoise Saulnier, Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF, lead counsel, Joanne Liu, President of MSF International, and Bruno Jochum, Director General of MSF Switzerland, from left to right, attend a news conference on the US air strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2015. Liu, told reporters that the weekend strike “was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated.” (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

International investigators ready to probe Kunduz hospital bombing

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 30, 2015, file photo, an Afghan National Army soldier rests after he arrives in a camp, outside of Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Najim Rahim via AP) **FILE**

Taliban withdraws from Kunduz

Associated Press

Afghan security forces and British soldiers inspect the site of a suicide attack in the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan. Loyalists of the Islamic State group are making inroads into Afghanistan, with homegrown militants claiming allegiance to the Islamic State as it controls territory in some parts of the country. (Associated Press)

Islamic State grows in Afghanistan, encroaches on Kabul as U.S. remains ‘passive observer’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Injured Doctors Without Borders staff are seen after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. (Médecins Sans Frontières via AP)

Doctors without Borders: 33 still missing after Afghan hospital bombing

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

The Doctors Without Borders trauma center is seen in flames, after explosions near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. (Doctors Without Borders via Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Doctors Without Borders Afghanistan airstrike details secret

By Bill Gertz

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., addresses the 2016 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in Mackinac Island, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Rand Paul: ‘Why are we bombing anybody in Afghanistan?’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Army Gen. John F. Campbell, the top commander in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “much has changed” on the battlefield since President Obama announced the withdrawal timetable in 2014, including the rise of the Islamic State and al Qaeda, and a reinvigorated Taliban. (Associated Press)

Gen. John Campbell: U.S. troops must remain in Afghanistan past 2016, new strategy needed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Resolute Support Mission Commander Gen. John Campbell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Situation in Afghanistan. U.S. forces attacked a hospital in northern Afghanistan last weekend, killing at least 22 people, despite &quot;rigorous&quot; U.S. military procedures designed to avoid such mistakes, the top commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Gen. John F. Campbell: Afghan charity hospital was ‘mistakenly struck’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times