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** FILE ** This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of the Guard, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh (left), listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Tehran said its forces had downed earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

Iran says it recovered data from captured U.S. drone

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ryan Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks during his swearing-in ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, July 25, 2011. (Associated Press)

U.S., Afghanistan finalize strategic agreement

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

**FILE** Sarah Palin (Associated Press)

White House accuses Palin, Sessions of ‘politicizing’ Secret Service incident

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

U.S. helicopter crashes in Afghanistan with 4 U.S. troops

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Afghan security forces rush to a battle in Kabul on Sunday, when militants launched a series of coordinated attacks across the city. The militant group Hizb-i-Islami, which walked out of peace talks last month, returned after their attack was foiled. (Associated Press)

Afghan militants return to peace talks

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration: Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KUHNER: Obama’s disastrous war

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

Embassy Row: Pressure on Pakistan

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Illustration: Terrorist by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Giving terrorists a leg up

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In an April 15, 2012, file photo NATO soldiers run during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq/file)

U.S., NATO ready plan to hand off Afghanistan combat

By Anne Gearan and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta listens April 18, 2012, during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to a question about photographs published in the Los Angeles Times of soldiers posing with dead insurgents. (Associated Press)

Photos of soldiers with Afghan body parts ‘reprehensible’

By Kristina Wong and Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks Feb. 20, 2012, at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. (Associated Press)

McCain hits peace talks with Taliban, troop withdrawal

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Photos of U.S. troops posing with corpses in Afghanistan revealed

By Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

"There is no change whatsoever in the timeline" for troops to leave Afghanistan, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) said Wednesday in Brussels, where he met with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

U.S., NATO plan handoff of combat lead to Afghans

By Anne Gearan and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed laws that protect women's rights but also has made comments that have alarmed defenders of those rights. He ignited a firestorm last year when he attempted to bring all women's shelters under government control. (Associated Press)

Taliban talks terrify Afghan women

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Embassy Row: Locke demands Ni Yulan release

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan’s Karzai: U.S. deal has to specify cash

By Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

Associated Press executive editor Kathleen Carroll (left) applauds April 16, 2012, as AP reporter Adam Goldman (center) is hugged after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with three colleagues in New York. They revealed a secret New York Police Department program that spied on Muslim neighborhoods. (Associated Press)

AP wins Pulitzer for stories on NYPD spying

By Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

Afghan special forces hold their weapons after a gunbattle with insurgents near the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Afghan officials blame attacks on Haqqani network

By Deb Riechmann and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Gunfire and smoke is seen coming out of a building occupied by militants during a battle with Afghan-led forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. The Afghan capital awoke Monday to a second day of explosions and heavy gunfire as Afghan-led forces worked to defeat insurgents holed up in the building in the heart of the city and another near parliament. (Associated Press)

Afghans blame hits on Haqqanis

By Rahim Faiez and Deb Riechmann ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times