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Pakistani soldiers rescue local residents from an area flooded by heavy rains on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, on Aug. 4, 2013. Heavy rains that swept across Pakistan brought down more than 100 homes and caved in a factory wall, killing at least a dozen people in the downpours, officials said. (Associated Press)

Deaths from heavy rains up to 53 in Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Va., May 2, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Newt Gingrich sees major Mideast mistakes, rethinks his neocon views on intervention

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Staff Sgt. Joy Clark of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment takes a moment to run her fingers over the engravings of the names of her fellow soldiers at a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, in Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2010. Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Fort Hood trial set to open after lengthy delays

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

Security officials conduct investigation at the scene of suicide bomb attacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, 3, 2013. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. (Associated Press)

9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate

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** FILE ** National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. Clapper is apologizing for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McClatchy asks whether U.S. spied on its reporter and his sources in Afghanistan

Associated Press

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Richard Sippl, a flight crew chief assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 169, fires a 7.62 mm M134 Minigun. (Credit: Department of Defense)

Crisis in Kabul: Security at U.S. Embassy in disarray, diplomats at risk

By Sara Carter - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is part of a delegation that traveled to Kuwait and Afghanistan this week to visit troops (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)

Virginia Gov. McDonnell travels to Kuwait, Afghanistan

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times

A U.S. soldier arrives to the scene where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

No proof U.S. life-saving anti-IED program ever implemented in Afghanistan

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Watchdog warns more than $1 billion going to fees and taxes in Afghanistan

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

NATO military equipment leaving Afghanistan is just one item taxed by the Hamid Karzai government. An inspector general’s report has estimated that a wave of taxation will slice $1 billion or more off the top of aid that was supposed to go to the Afghan people. Instead, it’s going into government coffers. (Associated Press)

Afghanistan’s thanks for U.S. generosity: Karzai’s regime issues harsh exit levies

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

U.S. shells out millions for bum construction in Afghanistan: Report

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The white Afghan elephant

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 24, 1998, photo, Muslim militant and al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai)

Bin Laden moved freely in Pakistan, was stopped for speeding

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

This photo was taken on Thursday, June 20, 2013, shows the Taliban flag visible through a gap in a wall of the new office of the Afghan Taliban in Doha, Qatar, after the opening of the office several days ago. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Angry Taliban shutter Qatar office over flag, sign disputes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: Afghanistan’s looming partition

By Brahma Chellaney

**FILE** A U.S. donated helicopter flies around after it was donated to Afghan air force in Shindand district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 10, 2011. (Associated Press)

Private suppliers fill in where Pentagon pulls out; TroopsDirect sends necessities to Afghanistan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

Arizona Sen. John McCain visits U.S. troops in Kabul

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Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan army chief of staff, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan army head: Pakistan controls the Taliban

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Ringo, a bomb-sniffing dog, listens to trainer Adam Ward, a contractor working for American K-9 Interdiction, as dog handler Marine Cpl. William Childs observes in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2009. The Pentagon also has spent more than $200 million a year developing devices to detect roadside bombs. (Associated Press)

GAO report conflicts with Army over battlefield intelligence system

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times