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Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, before the House Armed Services Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top commander in Afghanistan says mission on track

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Commander says U.S. on track to leave Afghanistan

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

An Army commander weighs in

The Washington Times

** FILE ** Smoke rises after a reported NATO airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area of Mohmand, along the Afghanistan border, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Department)

Pakistani panel calls for end to U.S. drone strikes

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar talks to the media as she leaves a joint session of Parliament in Islamabad on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. A parliamentary commission demanded an end to American drone attacks inside Pakistan and an apology for deadly U.S. airstrikes in November, as part of proposed new terms in the country's troubled relations with the U.S. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani Parliament says no to U.S. drones

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

Troops in Afghanistan have few opportunities to rest, according to an Army report that provides a stark look at post-traumatic stress disorder and its risk of irrational acts. Fighting forces have endured frequent stressful deployments and compressed time back home. (Associated Press)

Troops stressed to breaking point

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Newt Gingrich, with wife Callista, speaks at the airport of Lake in the Hills, Ill., Thursday. The former House speaker sounds less hawkish on foreign-policy matters. "Instability rather than aggression is the great threat," he recently said of North Korea. (Associated Press)

Gingrich edges away from hawkish past on campaign trail

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. In a separate incident, a senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

EDITORIAL: The next war in Afghanistan

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

ASSOCIATED PRESS
A former private security guard (left) hands over his weapon to Jamal Abdul Naser Sidiqi, head of the Afghan Public Protection Force, during a transition ceremony Thursday of private security forces to Afghan Public Protection Force on the outskirts of Kabul. The Afghan government is giving companies extensions ranging from a few weeks to 90 days.

Afghan government gives private security firms more time before ban

By Heidi Vogt ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens to a question during a campaign stop on Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Collinsville, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Romney lambastes Obama over military decisions

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Spc. Ryan Hallock)

Lawyer: Afghan killings suspect recalls little

By Gene Johnson and John Milburn - Associated Press

In this Aug. 23, 2011, Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, soldiers from Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, including Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, take part in exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Five days after an attack on Afghan villagers killed 16 civilians, a senior U.S. official identified Bales as the suspect in that attack. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock)

Money, career woes plagued suspect in Afghan civilian killings

By Dan Sewell and Donna Gordon Blankinship - Associated Press

The transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus, 22, of Greenville, Miss., sits Feb. 2, 2012, at the end of the loader ramp upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. An Afghan soldier shot and killed Dycus at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan in February in a previously undisclosed case of Afghan treachery, Marine officials said. (Associated Press)

New case of Afghan killing Marine

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta

PRUDEN: A curious experiment in gun control in Afghanistan

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, U.S. Army and Afghan soldiers are seen in a guard tower at their base in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, following the alleged killing of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier. U.S. investigators have determined that the suspect had been drinking alcohol prior to leaving the base the night of the attack, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday. How much of a role alcohol played in the attack is still under investigation, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because charges have not yet been filed. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)

Experts: Soldier might have post-traumatic stress

By Marilynn Marchione - Associated Press

John Henry Browne, the attorney representing the U.S. soldier who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, talks to reporters, Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Official: Afghanistan slaying suspect headed to U.S.

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

Wreckage from a crashed Turkish helicopter is loaded March 16, 2012, into a truck at the crash site on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing several Turkish soldiers on board and young girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said. (Associated Press)

Turkish helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; 14 dead

By Rahim Faiez and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Attorneys John Henry Browne, right, and Emma Scanlan, second from right, talk to reporters, Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Seattle. Browne and Scanlan will be representing a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Suspect in killing of Afghan civilians identified

By Adam Geller - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) shakes hands with his Afghan counterpart, Abdul Rahim Wardak, on Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Ismail, Pool)

Afghans angry over removal of accused U.S. soldier

By Amir Shah and Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Afghan failure

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times