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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a video conference of NATO Defense Minister at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

NATO forces will leave Afghanistan ‘when conditions are met … not before,’ alliance chief says

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Afghan security inspects the site of a suicide car bombing in Ghor province western of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 18. 2020. A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than 100 others in Afghanistan is western Ghor province officials said. (AP Photo)

US envoy warns new violence threatens Afghan peace process

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

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Zalmay Khalilzad warns violence could undermine Afghan talks

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Afghan families leave their houses after fighting between the Afghan military and Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, southern of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

American airstrikes violate peace pact, Taliban says; U.S. denies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Car bombing in western Afghanistan kills 13, wounds 120

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Afghan families leave their houses after fighting between the Afghan military and Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, southern of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Taliban to suspend assault after US pledges to halt strikes

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this June 10, 2017, file photo provided by Operation Resolute Support, U.S. soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. Moscow and Washington are intertwined in a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan, with both suffering thousands of dead and wounded in conflicts lasting for years. Now both superpowers are linked again over Afghanistan, with intelligence reports indicating Russia secretly offered bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops there. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff, Operation Resolute Support via AP, File)

Afghan chief negotiator: No clarity on timeline of U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Over 5,600 Afghan families displaced by fighting in south

By ABDUL KHALIQ and RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Illustration on the exit from Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America’s final exit from Afghanistan

By Abraham Wagner

2 Afghan helicopters crash amid Helmand fighting, 9 dead

By ABDUL KHALIQ and and RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

US forces hit Taliban with airstrikes in Helmand province

By ABDUL KHALIQ - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

U.S. forces conduct ‘targeted strikes’ to slow Taliban advance

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this July 9, 2020, file photo, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

Gen. Mark Milley won’t confirm Donald Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal timeline

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghanistan’s chief peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Abdullah on Saturday said India’s civil and military leadership were supportive of an inclusive, peaceful settlement of the Afghan peace process and that interactions with New Delhi were expected to further deepen in the course of coming weeks and months. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

AP Interview: Top Afghan negotiator lauds India’s support

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah, center, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, 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)

Afghan negotiator: Nobel nomination nod to women’s campaign

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

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. Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of the U.S.'s troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

Taliban celebrates after Donald Trump says U.S. troops out of Afghanistan ‘by Christmas’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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. Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of the U.S.'s troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

Military blindsided by Trump’s new Afghan troop withdrawal

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this June 10, 2017, photo provided by Operation Resolute Support, U.S. soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Trump tweet about Christmas troop withdrawal sows confusion on timetable in Afghanistan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Afghan students attend an open air class at a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. The World Bank said this week that nearly half of Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million children are still out of school — despite massive investment in the country’s education sector. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Report: 3.7 million Afghan children don’t attend school

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Suicide bomber kills 9 at checkpoint in south Afghanistan

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