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Imran Khan (center), Pakistan’s ex-cricket star-turned-politician, talks to backers during a march in Tank, Pakistan, on Sunday. The Pakistani military blocked a convoy carrying thousands of Pakistanis and a contingent of U.S. anti-war activists. (Associated Press)

Pakistani military turns back peace convoy

By Ishtiaq Mahsud - Associated Press

On Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Afghan Gen. Majid Rouzi, a former civil war commander who now is an adviser to the Ministry of Interior, shows off his favorite civil war photograph, in which he is pictured with one of the best-known Afghan military leaders, Ahmad Shah Massoud. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Afghanistan war enters its 12th year

By Amir Shah and Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Afghan police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. The suicide bomber was driving a motorcycle packed with explosives and rammed it into a patrol of Afghan and international forces, killing over a dozen people, including three NATO service members and their translator, official said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

NATO weeds out suspect recruits, resumes Afghan police training

The Washington Times

Imran Khan (top left), a Pakistani cricket-star-turned-politician, addresses supporters during a peace march in Mianwali, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. Thousands of Pakistanis joined by a group of U.S. anti-war activists headed toward Pakistan's militant-riddled tribal belt Saturday to protest U.S. drone strikes, even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned that suicide bombers would stop the demonstration. (AP Photo/Jabbar Ahmed)

Pakistan blocks anti-U.S. protest in tribal region

By Ishtiaq Mahsud - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Friday, April 30, 2004, file photo shows Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, as he arrives with a masked bodyguard, right, to conduct Friday prayers in the street outside the closed Finsbury Park Mosque in London. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File)

5 terror suspects from U.K. appear in U.S. courts

By John Christofferson and Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Obama pursuing defeatism in Afghanistan

By Oliver North - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A U.S. Marine squad leader patrols alongside an Afghan National Army lieutenant in Helmand province in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

NORTH: Obama pursuing defeatism in Afghanistan

By Oliver North - The Washington Times

An Afghan soldier adjusts bullets in his gun Sept. 10, 2012, on a military helicopter during a flight transporting journalists from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Bagram. The journalists were to attend a ceremony where U.S. officials handed over formal control of the country's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Afghan official blames Taliban for insider attacks

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A U.S. Marine squad leader patrols alongside an Afghan National Army lieutenant in Helmand province in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Deadly sleeper cells of Taliban are difficult to detect, thwart

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

**FILE** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks July 17, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

British general warns against hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Bomber kills 14, including 3 U.S. troops

By Heidi Vogt and Amir Shah - Associated Press

Mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle

Biden hails success of bomb-resistant military vehicles

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, after a bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into a patrol of Afghan and international forces, killing more than a dozen people, including three NATO service members and their translator, officials said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

Afghan bomber kills 14, including 3 NATO troops

By Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. military personnel pray during a memorial service for their fallen comrades in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in March 2003. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

** FILE ** An Afghan National Army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, in the volatile Arghandab Valley outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, in July 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

U.S. and Afghan forces clash; 2 Americans, 3 Afghans dead

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

**FILE** U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division, the last American unit to leave Iraq, arrive at Camp Virginia in Kuwait. (Associated Press)

Social Security numbers of military heroes posted online

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks to reporters in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 10, 2012, after visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial ahead of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Associated Press)

Panetta: Afghan-NATO operations to resume

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration Arab Spring Bomb by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: The Arab Spring has become Western Winter

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Afghan president Karzai blasts anti-Islam film

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** An armored vehicle patrols the periphery of Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in January 2007. (Associated Press)

Taliban release video on Afghan base attackers

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press