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** FILE ** Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago

By Chris Brummitt and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Staff Sgt. Marie Martinson, one of two female bomb techs in the 88th Air Base Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is seen here in Afghanistan with a robot pack beside her. (U.S. Air Force)

Pentagon pushes female troops closer to battlefield

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Afghan National Army soldiers secure the gate of the military hospital after Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official who became an Afghan peace negotiator, was killed by an unknown attacker in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan announces security transition

By Chris Blake and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

An Afghan soldier patrols the gate of a military hospital Sunday in Kabul. An assassin earlier in the day fatally shot Arsala Rahmani, a top member of the Afghan peace council and a senator in Parliament. (Associated Press)

Gunman kills Afghan peace council member in Kabul

By Rahim Faiez and Chris Blake - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (second from right) meets Salahuddin Rabbani during a Civil Society round-table discussion at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Gunman kills Afghan peace council member in Kabul

By Chris Blake and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Vladimir Putin

Tajikistan looks to Russia for lease, security

By R. Ignatov - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** This undated photo provided by the Bergdahl family and released by the Idaho National Guard shows Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. Nearly three years after finding out their son was taken hostage by enemy forces in Afghanistan, Idaho residents Bob and Jani Bergdahl say they don't think the government is working hard enough to bring Bowe home. (AP Photo/The Bergdahl Family)

U.S. talking to Taliban on freeing serviceman

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

World Briefs: Video emerges of American kidnapped in Pakistan

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark is pictured in an undated photo. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Army: No bullet wound found in soldier in Skype death

By Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

** FILE ** During a training session at Camp Morehead on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2011, Afghan National Special Force soldiers stand on tanks that were destroyed in the Soviet occupation and civil war. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Afghan government slams Taliban spring offensive

By Chris Blake - Associated Press

** FILE ** A NATO coalition soldier carries a sniffer dog after a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Attacker in Afghan uniform kills NATO soldier

By Chris Blake - Associated Press

UK publisher to release Taliban poetry anthology

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, file photo, Sahar Gul, 15-year-old speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, as she is seen on a bed at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

Afghan child bride’s in-laws sentenced for torture

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., Friday, May 4, 2012, about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama tells Congress: Use war savings to pay down debt, rebuild nation

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Manhunt’

By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KUHNER: Obama, liberal imperialist

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In war, presidential indecision costs lives

The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Obama’s politically calculated speech

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

Illustration: I got Osama by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

WHALEN: Obama’s Osama optics

By Bill Whalen

Illustration: Obamastan (after Levine) by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama’s midnight madness

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times