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Afghans: Sources confirm Badruddin Haqqani is dead

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

The French flag is lowered during a ceremony to transfer authority from French soldiers, who are part of NATO's forces, to Afghan security forces in Surobi, Afghanistan, east of Kabul, on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

NATO: 202 Afghan bases closed, with more to come

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan

By Anwarullah Khan - Associated Press

Terrorist leader confirmed killed in Pakistan

By Rahim Faiez and Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

** FILE ** An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night in January 2010. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Pakistan: U.S. drones hit militant hideouts, kill 18

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** Marine Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

General: Ramadan a factor in Afghan insider attacks

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Afghans: Foreign spies at root of insider attacks

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Nicholas Weichel stands next to the casket of his father, Rhode Island National Guard Sgt. Dennis Weichel Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan. The conflict is no longer a hot topic with most Americans, even with 88,000 U.S. troops still fighting there and 2,000 having died there. (Associated Press)

Afghanistan is America’s forgotten war

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confer on Capitol Hill in Washington before testifying before Congress on Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Afghan militants hit U.S. military chief’s parked plane

By Kay Johnson - Associated Press

The Washington Times

BERMAN AND MCKINLEY: U.S. and Russia in a new standoff

By Ilan Berman and Tyler McKinley

World Briefs: North Korea completes key step in reactor construction

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** U.S. Marines patrol outside Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province, in February 2010. (Associated Press)

Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

**FILE** U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies Feb. 14, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline the Pentagon's budget. (Associated Press)

Joint Chiefs chair Dempsey in Afghanistan to discuss attacks

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

Dempsey

Top U.S. general in Kabul to discuss attacks

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade take positions near their armored vehicles during a patrol on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, in August 2009. Months later, they got the anti-IED gear they requested. (Associated Press)

Unit’s fight for better anti-IED software won after heavy casualties

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A U.S. Predator drone (Associated Press)

U.S. drones kill 10 militants in northwest Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (left) meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Ismail, Pool)

Panetta prods Karzai on Afghan insider killings

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Afghans offer Eid al-Fitr holiday prayers Sunday at a mosque in Kabul at the end of Ramadan. “The enemies of Muslims … during the holy month of Ramadan treated the nation of Afghanistan cruelly: bombs, explosions in mosques, suicide attacks in mosques,” President Hamid Karzai said. (Associated Press)

Muslim holiday doesn’t deter killing in Afghanistan

By Mirwais Khan And Amir Shah - Associated Press

An Afghan man collects victims' belongings at the scene of an explosion at a cemetery in Lashkar Gah, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

4 Afghans, 3 NATO troops killed in holiday attacks

By Amir Shah and Mirwais Khan - Associated Press

Afghans look at a pool of blood at the scene of an explosion Aug. 19, 2012, at a cemetery in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan. A bomb hidden in the cemetery exploded as a police official and his family were visiting the grave of a relative, killing the official and his brother, police said. (Associated Press)

Man in Afghan police uniform kills NATO service member

Associated Press