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Afghan Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi speaks during an interview to the Associated Press at the Ministry of the Interior in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP Interview: Minister says Afghan forces can hold their own

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - in this Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, students attend an open air class at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, An Afghan education ministry memo banning girls, 12 years old and older, from singing at public school functions, which the education ministry tells The Associated Press was a mistake, is causing a social media stir. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Memo banning Afghan girls singing prompts #IAmMySong protest

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A security official inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 13, 2021. A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and injured 47 in Afghanistan's western Herat province, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)

Afghan bomb kills at least 8; UN slams high civilian deaths

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 11, 2021. Afghans are eager for peace and a recently floated U.S. draft for a deal between Taliban insurgents and the Afghan government is the best chance to accelerate stalled peace talks, ex-president Hamid Karzai said in an interview Thursday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP Interview: Karzai says US plan catalyst for Afghan peace

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan security officers inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. A roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan's capital Sunday, killing at least a few people in a vehicle, the latest attack to take place even as government negotiators are in Qatar to resume peace talks with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

History As It Happens: Ending the forever war

By Martin Di Caro

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on foreign policy at the State Department, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Antony Blinken eyes pulling Iran, Russia into Afghan talks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi attends the &quot;intra-Afghan&quot; talks in Moscow, Russia. Frustrated by a stalled peace process and escalating violence, the U.S. has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to Afghanistan's warring sides for review. Koofi, one of only four women at the negotiation table in Doha, warned against haste and a May 1 withdrawal of U.S. troops, saying it would cause chaos. She confirmed that all sides had received the U.S.-crafted draft agreement. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

US presents warring Afghan sides with draft peace agreement

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women’s rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview to The Associated Press, at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Samar, 64, believes her struggle is far from over -- especially at a time when violence is on the rise, peace talks between rival Afghan groups are stuck and the U.S. mulls its departure. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

As US mulls Afghan exit, activist sees long fight for women

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

in this Tuesday, May 12, 2020, photo, security officers are seen through the shattered window of a maternity hospital after gunmen attacked, in Kabul, Afghanistan, The Geneva-based international health organization Médecins Sans Frontières — also known as Doctors Without Borders — Tuesday closed its operations in the Afghan capital Kabul after a horrific attack on its maternity hospital in May. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Slain Afghan midwife among those to be honored for courage by State Department

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghans carry the body of a woman who was killed by gunmen in the city of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Three women who worked for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan were gunned down Tuesday in two separate attacks, the news editor of the privately owned station said. (AP Photo/Sadaqat Ghorzang)

New killings deepen Afghan journalists’ assassination fears

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghans carry the body of a woman who was killed by gunmen in the city of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Three women who worked for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan were gunned down Tuesday in two separate attacks, the news editor of the privately owned station said. (AP Photo/Sadaqat Ghorzang)

Three women media workers shot dead in eastern Afghanistan

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021 file photo, birds flyover the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States wasted billions of dollars in war-torn Afghanistan on buildings and vehicles that were either abandoned or destroyed, according to a report released Monday, March 1, 2021, by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a U.S. government watchdog. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Report: US wasted billions on cars, buildings in Afghanistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 2, 2010 file photo, Afghan security forces stand outside a USAID compound in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, after it was stormed by militants wearing suicide vests. The United States wasted billions of dollars in war-torn Afghanistan on buildings and vehicles that were either abandoned or destroyed, according to a report released Monday, March 1, 2021, by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a U.S. government watchdog. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. wasted billions on Afghan construction projects: IG

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Officials: Attack targets Afghan reporter’s family, kills 3

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2017, photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum how to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without abandoning the country to even more mayhem. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**

Biden likely to keep troops in Afghanistan, missing May 1 deadline

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Officials: Engine explosion, fire kill 10 Afghan civilians

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

FILE - in this Oct. 25, 2020 file photo, Afghan men bury a victim of a suicide attack that targeted an education center, in Kabul Afghanistan. The U.N. says the number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan fell by 15% last year, compared to 2019. A report released Tuesday, Feb.23, 2021, attributed the drop in civilian casualties in part to an apparent tactical change by insurgents to targeted killings, fewer suicide bombings, and a stark drop in casualties attributed to international military forces. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

UN says Afghan civilian casualties down by 15% last year

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, bottom right, speaks at the opening session of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. After more than a month of delays, escalating violence and a flurry of diplomatic activity peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have resumed Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in the Middle Eastern State of Qatar. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

Afghan peace talks resume, but path is anything but certain

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Police say militants kill 4 women instructors in NW Pakistan

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

Officials: Roadside bombs in Afghanistan kill 3, wound 20

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