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Britain's Prince Harry — or just plain Capt. Wales, as he is known in the British army — talks to a TV crew after making his early-morning preflight checks on the flight line at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The British Ministry of Defense announced on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, that the 28-year-old prince is returning from his 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

Prince Harry: Royal soldier’s Afghan downtime included war movies, candy trades

Associated Press

Army Lt. Col. Tamatha Patterson of Huntingdon, Tenn., waits for Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta to hand her the memorandum he has just signed ending the 1994 ban on women serving in combat on Jan. 24, 2013, during a news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Panetta: Women are integral to military’s success

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

**FILE** Capt. Sara Rodriguez, 26, of the 101st Airborne Division, carries a litter of sandbags during the Expert Field Medical Badge training at Fort Campbell, Ky., on May 9, 2012. (Associated Press)

Pentagon move will send women into direct combat

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Prince Harry back in UK after Afghan deployment

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair (left) leaves a Fort Bragg courthouse with a member of his defense team, Maj. Elizabeth Ramsey, on Jan. 22, 2012, after he deferred entering a plea at his arraignment on charges of fraud, forcible sodomy, coercion and inappropriate relationships. Sinclair, who served five combat tours, is headed to trial following a spate of highly publicized military sex scandals involving high-ranking officers that has triggered a review of ethics training across the service branches. (Associated Press/The Fayetteville Observer)

Army general defers plea at hearing on sex charges

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘My Share of the Task’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

Prince Harry’s wartime role draws reprisal fears

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry — or just plain Capt. Wales, as he is known in the British army — talks to a TV crew after making his early-morning preflight checks on the flight line at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The British Ministry of Defense announced on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, that the 28-year-old prince is returning from his 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

Prince Harry: Royal pilot returns from Afghanistan

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

UK’s Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

An Afghan security officer watches smoke rising from a rocket fired by militants that landed near the traffic police headquarters during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Taliban attacks show Afghan insurgents’ resilience

By Amir Shah and Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

A prisoner looks out his cell window at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April 2011. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

U.N.: Prisoners still tortured in Afghan prisons

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

Illustration Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNAPP: Beyond 2014 in Afghanistan

By Patrick Knapp

James Cunningham, U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, says during a news event at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, that the United States wants serious peace negotiations with the Taliban but that it has not yet been possible to get the process under way. (AP Photo/Patrick Quinn)

U.S. envoy: Taliban peace process stuck

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

A French legionnaire cleans the barrel of an armored vehicle at an undisclosed location north of the Malian capital, Bamako, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. French troops pressed northward in the West African country toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in direct combat "within hours." (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine, French Army Communication Audiovisual Office [ECPAD])

Airstrikes among surge in fighting in Mali towns

By Baba Ahmed and Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Illustration: Afghanistan

TAUBE: Leaving Afghanistan before the job is done

By Michael Taube

A security man with the Afghan intelligence services gestures to his colleagues, as he stands at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Six militants — one driving a car packed with explosives — attacked the gate of the Afghan intelligence service in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, setting off a blast that could be heard throughout downtown and which sent a plume of dark smoke rising into the sky. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

1 killed in suicide attack on Afghan spy agency

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

Marine faces charges for urinating on corpses

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

Fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda fighters carve out own country in Mali

By Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

** FILE ** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 14, 2013. (Associated Press)

Karzai: U.S. has promised us a drone fleet

By Katherine Timpf - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, speaks during an appearance at Bellevue University in Bellevue, Neb., in 2007. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Pentagon  insiders  preferred  another  over Hagel

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times