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Several legal analysts predicted that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, who faces confinement for life if convicted, will receive a more lenient sentence in a plea deal to avoid a drawn-out trial that just provides more bad publicity for the Army after a year of media scrutiny on the conditions around Sgt. Bergdahl's disappearance in 2009. (Associated Press)

Bowe Bergdahl charged with desertion

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. official says Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, will be court martialed on charges of desertion and avoiding military service. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, file)

Bowe Bergdahl describes Taliban captivity for first time after desertion charge

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president: Islam’s leaders must speak out on terror threat

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Microphones hover above Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and President Barack Obama during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (Associated Press)

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president, condemns terrorism: ‘They do not speak for Islam’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama waves as he and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani conclude their news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Ghani represents Obama's last, best hope to make good on his promise to end America's longest war by the time he leaves office, keeping just a thousand or so troops at the embassy to coordinate security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama to maintain Afghanistan troop levels through end of 2015

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani waves from a golf cart as he rides to a meeting at the Camp David Presidential retreat, Monday, March 23, 2015, in Camp David, Md. The pace of U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will headline Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to Washington, yet America's exit from the war remains tightly hinged to the abilities of the Afghan forces that face a tough fight against insurgents this spring. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president, unlikely to sway Obama on troop drawdown, experts say

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addresses a new conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Feb. 21, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Jonathan Ernst, Pool) ** FILE **

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president, thanks U.S. troops for sacrifices in first visit to D.C.

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2015, file photo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, left, walks with U.S. Army Gen. John Campbell upon arrival at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The pace of U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will headline Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Washington(AP Photo/Jonathan Ernst, Pool)

U.S. pullout from Afghanistan hinged to developing forces

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

This late 2003 file image obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/File)

Judge orders U.S. release of military detainee abuse photos

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a graduation ceremony inspects guards of honor at a military academy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan President Ghani seeks ‘new chapter’ in U.S. relations with D.C. visit

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, a onetime anthropologist and former World Bank executive, will meet with President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry to discuss possible changes to the timetable to withdraw the bulk of American troops. (Associated Press)

Ashraf Ghani, Obama to discuss U.S. troops in Afghanistan

By Jonathan Soch - The Washington Times

Young volunteer militia pose for a picture before going into battle against Islamic State fighters in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Afghan army kills commander of Islamic State affiliate

Associated Press

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh, flanked by Army Chief of Staff Gen Raymond Odierno, right, and Maj. Gen. William E. Rapp, the Army legislative liaison, arrives to update members of the Senate Armed Services Committee about the deadly shooting rampage by a soldier yesterday at Fort Hood in Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014. An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness was the gunman who opened fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide, in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were slain in 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Army’s withdrawal of officer’s Silver Star sparks ire of Congress

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Afghanistan govt. took $1M from the CIA and used it for al Qaeda ransom: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks to troops at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year’s end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season, U.S. officials say. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama abandons plan to cut troop levels in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year’s end

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, says six telecommunications towers were built in Afghanistan without usage plans. (Associated Press)

Campbell-Sopko feud on public Afghan audits spills to hearing

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Afghan National Police officers march during a graduation ceremony at a training center in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

U.S. military helps Afghan National Police recruit, train women

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Reinforcement Afghan police officers pose together as they are expected to go for recapturing the village of Wanat in Nuristan province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday July 17, 2008. U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers earlier this week, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

U.S. ramps up program women cops in Afghanistan

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (right) is courting a longer stay by U.S. troops, whom he thanks for their sacrifices. Last month, he stood shoulder to shoulder at the presidential palace with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. (Associated Press)

Haider al-Abadi of Iraq, Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan amenable U.S. war partners

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times