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Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar speaks, bottom right, talks at the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

Pentagon doubts Taliban moves toward peace deal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2020, file photo, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, center, top U.S. commander for the Middle East, makes an unannounced visit in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Lolita Baldor, File)

Iran, Taliban officials say US pushing war in Afghanistan

Associated Press

Mendon firefighters and other emergency personnel respond to a military helicopter crash in a field near Cheese Factory Road and W. Bloomfield Road in Mendon, N.Y., late Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Three National Guard members on the routine training flight were killed, according to authorities. (Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat &amp; Chronicle via AP)

3 dead in military helicopter crash were experienced pilots

Associated Press

Afghan firefighters work at the site of a bombingh 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)

Afghan officials: Taliban attacks, violence kills dozens

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

An internally displaced boy pose for a photograph outside his temporary home in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Save the Children has warned that more than 300,000 Afghan children face freezing winter conditions that could lead to illness, in the worst cases death, without proper winter clothing and heating. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Group: Billion in aid needed to help Afghan kids in 2021

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Group: Angry mob targets radio station in north Afghanistan

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

U.S. reduces troop numbers in Afghanistan to 2,500

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Pakistan military: Fence bordering Afghanistan nearly done

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Afghan security officers inspect the site of a bombing 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)

Afghan officials: Bomb kills 3 in Kabul amid peace talks

By RAHIM FAIEZ and TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2020 file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center left, and his aides meet with Afghanistan's State Minister for Peace Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi, center right, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's peace negotiation team amid talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, in Doha, Qatar. Afghan negotiators are to resume talks Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, even as hopes are waning, and frustration and fear is growing over a spike in violence that has combatants on both sides blaming the other. The change in the U.S. administration is likely to drag out the opening days of the talks as both sides wait to see whether Biden will stick to the deal brokered by Trump. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

New round of Afghan-Taliban peace talks off to a slow start

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai, center front, and his delegation attend the opening session of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, in Doha, Qatar. Afghan negotiators are to resume talks Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, aimed at finding an end to the decades of relentless conflict, even as hopes are waning, and frustration and fear is growing over a spike in violence that has combatants on both sides blaming the other. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

An ‘orchard of bad apples’ weighs on new Afghan peace talks

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Gunmen kill prominent journalist in western Afghanistan

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. In two explosions Monday in the capital Kabul, multiple people were wounded, according to Kabul police. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Officials: Attacks across Afghanistan kill at least 5

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

This Dec. 13, 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. 1st Class Duke Webb who is currently serving as a Special Forces Assistance Operations and Intelligence Sergeant. Webb, arrested in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three others injured had four deployments to Afghanistan, the most recent ending in July. Webb was scheduled to appear in court Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, on three counts of murder and three counts of first-degree attempted murder in the shooting at Don Carter Lanes, in Rockford, Ill., on Saturday evening. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army via AP)

Lawyer: Soldier charged in Rockford shooting may have PTSD

By MICHAEL TARM and SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Afghan army: 2 officers killed by roadside bomb in north

Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE OF ATTACK AND IDENTIFIES RASHEED AS THE HEAD OF THE INDEPENDENT ELECTIONS WATCHDOG -- Afghans carry the coffin of Mohammad Yousuf Rasheed, executive director of the non-governmental Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan, during his funeral ceremony, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Separate bombing and shooting attacks in Afghanistan’s capital left several people dead Wednesday, including Rasheed, the head of the independent elections watchdog, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan official: Bomb, shooting attacks in Kabul kill 3

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Mexico sees most journalists killed in 2020, group says

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, image taken from a video provided by Defense.gov, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. (Defense.gov via AP) ** FILE **

Christopher Miller visits Afghanistan amid troop drawdown

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghan Journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad poses for photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 29, 2019. Nikzad , a prominent local journalist was shot dead by unknown assailants in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. He was the fourth journalist to be killed in the war-ravaged nation in just two months. Afghanistan is considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan officials: Local journalist killed in Ghazni province

Associated Press

Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. The strong car bomb explosion rocked the capital Kabul city on Sunday morning, killing multiple people, said a government official. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Official: Large car bomb kills 9 in Afghan capital

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press