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** FILE ** Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)

Attacks by Afghans on U.S. troops often personal

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

**FILE** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta: U.S. combat in Afghanistan to end next year

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (center left) talks with her Afghan counterpart, Zalmai Rasool (center right), during their meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)

Afghan Taliban deny they’re ready to talk peace

By Kay Johnson - Associated Press

Attacks by Afghans on U.S. forces increase

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Afghan security forces celebrate Tuesday during a ceremony transferring authority from NATO-led troops to them in an area west of Kabul. The turnover to Afghan troops and police is to be finished by 2014. (Associated Press)

Afghans’ faith in own troops growing, but slowly

By Kay Johnson - Associated Press

**FILE** An Afghan woman (center) peeks inside a hospital on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 26, 2011, while she and others wait for an employee to let them enter. (Associated Press)

Afghan woman killed, apparently for bearing girl

By Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, France's Defense and Veterans Minister Gerard Longuet, left, and French General and Paris military governor Bruno Dary, right, pay tribute to the Unknown soldier's tomb, at the Arc of Triomphe, in Paris, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)

Afghans blast French plan to withdraw troops early

By Kay Johnson and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan president Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy following a news conference at the Elysee palace, in Paris, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)

U.S. OK with early French withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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Navy SEAL raid in Somalia shows campaign ahead

By Kimberly Dozier and Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Jan. 24, 2012, file photo, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32, and broadly restructure its fighting force to save money and cut the size of the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Politics of defense cuts: Emphasize the positive

By Donna Cassata and Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra addresses the media after a European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels in March 2009. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Panetta, Czech defense minister discuss Afghanistan

By Kristina Wong - 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)

Pakistan rejects U.S. self-defense claim on strikes

By Sebastian Abbott - Associated Press

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U.S.: Taliban must renounce terrorist ties

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

A U.S. soldier with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks Jan. 19, 2012, by a damaged vehicle at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The attacker blew himself up at an entrance to a sprawling base for U.S. and NATO operations in southern Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians, police said. (Associated Press)

France mulls early Afghanistan pullout as 4 killed

By Deb Riechmann and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

**FILE** A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet Jan. 19, 2012, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

6 Hawaii-based Marines killed in Afghanistan crash

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Analysts: Radical Uzbek group recruiting in Europe

By Josie Le Blond - Special to 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)

All 6 killed in helicopter crash were Marines

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

GOP lawmaker seeks leniency for ‘Urinegate’ Marines

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan kills 6

By Mirwais Khan - Associated Press

Rep. Duncan Hunter (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hunter: ‘Context’ in urination on corpses

By Kristina Wong and Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times