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Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Abdullah ended a three-day visit to Pakistan optimistic the uneasy neighbors had turned a corner away from a relationship marked by suspicion and downright hostility toward one akin to a partnership for peace in the region. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Envoy pushes Pakistan to press Taliban to lessen violence

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Illustration on the Afghan war by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Evidence demands America end the Afghan war and withdraw now

By Daniel L. Davis

In this picture provided by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, second left, is accompanied by Pakistani officials upon his arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Afghanistan's top official in negotiations with the Taliban arrived in Pakistan's capital Monday on a three-day trip during which he will meet with the country's prime minister and other government officials. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Top Afghan negotiator in Taliban talks arrives in Pakistan

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

In this Nov. 28, 2019, file photo armed soldiers stand guard in the motorcade for President Donald Trump speaks during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) **FILE**

U.S. operations in Afghanistan will continue after next troop withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, attends Ashraf Ghani's inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

U.S. ‘on path’ to slash troop number in Afghanistan to 5,000 or fewer by this fall: Zalmay Khalilzad

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task in her society, the 24-year-old teaches men and women Sufi whirling. Mirzaie spins alongside men at an Afghan Italian restaurant in center of the capital, Kabul. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Young Afghan women, men perform whirling Sufi dance together

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Pakistan says Afghan cross-border fire kills soldier

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

An Afghan woman sits next to the grave of her son, adorned with his picture, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept 14, 2020. Scores of friends and families of students who were killed in local conflicts are gathering in a cemetery to call for a permanent countrywide ceasefire from the parties to the intra-Afghan peace conference taking place in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US Embassy in Kabul warns of extremist attacks against women

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens during the third annual U.S.-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Washington. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

Mike Pompeo: Fewer than 200 al Qaeda members remain in Afghanistan

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Taliban delegation attend 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)

UN welcomes Afghan talks with the Taliban, urges cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Families gather at the graves of their relatives, adorned with their pictures, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept 14, 2020. Scores of friends and families of students who were killed in local conflicts are gathering in a cemetery to call for a permanent countrywide ceasefire from the parties to the intra-Afghan peace conference taking place in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US envoy lauds Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace talks process

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

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)

Afghanistan peace talks marred by gunfights, IEDs

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai, fifth right, with his delegation attend 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) **FILE**

Afghans, Taliban engage in peace talks amid violence

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, waves as he boards his plane at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Officials on both sides of Afghanistan's protracted conflict say efforts are ramping up for the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, a critical next step to a U.S. negotiated peace deal with the Taliban. (Sapidar Palace via AP)

Warring Afghans meet to find peace after decades of war

By KATHY GANNON and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, talks with the media at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Officials on both sides of Afghanistan's protracted conflict say efforts are ramping up for the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, a critical next step to a U.S. negotiated peace deal with the Taliban. (Sapidar Palace via AP)

Pompeo says Afghan negotiations likely to be ‘contentious’

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 19, 2019, file photo, a man waves an Afghan flag during Independence Day celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials on both sides of Afghanistan's protracted conflict say efforts are ramping up for the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, a critical next step to a U.S. negotiated peace deal with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Trump administration hopeful as Taliban-Afghan talks slated to begin Saturday

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., participate in a sunset memorial service on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, as the nation prepares to mark the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Trump, Biden to converge on Shanksville on Sept. 11

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, as he returns from Springfield, Mo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump Iraq, Afghanistan troop drawdown fulfills promise, fuels criticism

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Spokesman for Afghanistan's Vice President Amrulleh Saleh said a bomb in the Afghan capital that killed a few civilians Wednesday was a failed assassination attempt against Saleh. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan officials: Kabul bomb targets VP, kills 10 civilians

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to announce Iraq, Afghanistan U.S. troops drawdown

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times