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Afghan President Hamid Karzai attends the last day of the national consultative council known as a Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Mr. Karzai said he won't immediately sign a security deal with the United States, ignoring a recommendation by the assembly of Afghan elders and leaders that he do so by the end of the year. The president argued that Afghanistan needs more time to ensure that the United States is committed to peace. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan’s Karzai meets with U.S. security adviser Susan Rice following rebuff

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds a copy of a weekly security report during the last day of the Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Mr. Karzai said he won't immediately sign a security deal with the United States, ignoring a recommendation by the assembly of Afghan elders and leaders that he do so by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan’s Karzai again delays signing U.S. deal

By Patrick Quinn and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., reload rockets onto a helicopter during a training exercise on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. The unit was able to continue flying training missions during the government shutdown and budget cutbacks by purchasing spare parts for helicopters over the summer before budget restrictions took effect. (AP Photo/Brett Barrouquere)

Military alters training to deal with budget woes

By Brett Barrouquere and Susanne M. Schafer - Associated Press

Supporters of Tehreek-e-Insaf or Movement for Justice party chant anti-U.S. slogans during a rally in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013. Thousands of people protesting U.S. drone strikes blocked a road in northwest Pakistan used to truck NATO troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan, the latest sign of rising tension caused by the attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

NATO supply line blocked by Pakistani drone protesters

Associated Press

In this undated handout file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lt. Col.. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force, File)

U.S. drone kills 5 outside of Pakistan tribal region

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during the first day of the Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Karzai has told a gathering of elders that he supports signing a security deal with the United States if safety and security conditions are met. Karzai spoke as the 2,500-member national consultative council of Afghan elders known as the Loya Jirga started in Kabul on Thursday. The four-day meeting will discuss the bilateral security pact that defines the role of thousands of U.S. troops who will remain after the NATO combat mission ends in 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president will defer signing U.S. security deal

By Amir Shah and Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, arrives to pray at a mosque in the party's headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Nov, 11, 2013. The Pakistan army condemned the prominent Islamic political leader Hasan who called the Pakistani Taliban chief killed by a U.S. drone strike a martyr. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Rare U.S. drone strike kills at least 5 in Pakistan

By Hussain Afzal and Rasool Dawar - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. Karzai announced that the final draft of a contentious Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States has been completed ahead of a traditional loya Jirga, or grand council, convened to discuss the critical pact. Both countries have signed off on the draft. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

U.S., Afghans hammering out an agreement on night raids

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An Afghan soldier on his armored vehicle secures a road in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 as security stepped up after a blast on Nov. 16, 2013, days before the Loya Jirga's is scheduled to open in the Afghan capital. Thousands of prominent Afghans are scheduled to meet to debate a contentious security agreement with the United States.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

US-Afghan deal offers concessions for each

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Navy SEALs raid Osama Bin Laden’s compound in “Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film is among the American Film Institute’s Top 10 movies of the year announced Monday. (Columbia Pictures Industries via Associated Press)

Navy SEALs cite shabby treatment as Obama administration helps Hollywood instead

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Afghan security forces members stand guard at the site of a blast near the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 18, 2013. The large bomb exploded in the Afghan capital as the international military coalition hands over responsibility for fighting the Taliban insurgency to the nascent national army and police they have been training. (Associated Press)

Shady Afghan company tied to Taliban gains access to NATO airbase

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Company with Taliban ties got access to NATO base in Afghanistan

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christopher Babcock, from New Orleans, La., photographs an Afghan villager for intelligence purposes after he was stopped cycling near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Army intelligence says it needs good cloud computing to save lives in Afghanistan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pakistani youths gather at the spot at which Nasiruddin Haqqani, a senior leader of the feared militant Haqqani network, was assassinated at an Afghan bakery in the Bhara Kahu area on the outskirts of Islamabad on Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Senior leader of Haqqani militant network shot dead in Islamabad

By Kathy Gannon and Rasool Dawar - Associated Press

President Barack Obama places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, during a Veterans Day ceremony. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama pledges aid to returning troops on Veterans Day

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 photo provided by American Airlines shows a group of Marines walking through a terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport during part of their journey back home after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The Marines were treated like heroes at the airport after a retired Marine and some others were not going to let them make the final leg of their journey to San Diego without thanking them for their service. After the plane they were on taxied underneath an arch of water from fire department hoses in what is called a "water salute,' the 13 Marines walked into the terminal to the sight of a small crowd of cheering USO volunteers, firefighters, police officers and others who work at the airport. (AP Photo/Courtesy of American Airlines, Vic Ysais)

Marines heading home shocked by ‘incredibly touching’ airport welcome

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, right, holds a rocket launcher with his comrades in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. Intelligence officials said Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud was one of three people killed in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)

Pakistan: Taliban leader who attacked CIA base killed in U.S. drone strike

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Afghans look at wreckage after a roadside bomb exploded on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. An Afghan official and witnesses said the bomb, apparently targeting a group of soldiers, killed a civilian in a market in the capital as the soldiers and officers waited for a vehicle to take them to their workplace. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Police: Roadside bomb kills 18 Afghan civilians

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Obama likely to deny Pakistani request to stop drone strikes

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

"I don't care if you're a conservative, a liberal, a Democrat or a Republican, this should send a chill up your spine. This is something that we cannot let stand." — Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Rep. Rogers: al Qaeda allies fighting in Syria also plotting foreign attacks

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times