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FILE- in this Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, file photo, newly graduated Afghan National Army march during their graduation ceremony after a three month training program at the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Afghanistan will need vast amounts of foreign funding to keep its government afloat through 2024, a U.S. agency said Thursday, even as foreign donors are increasingly angry over the cost of debilitating corruption and the U.S. seeks a peace deal with Taliban to withdraw its troops. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghans will need billions more in aid, as US looks to leave

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

'Autopsy of an Unwinnable War' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Autopsy of an Unwinnable War’

By Joshua Sinai

In this Sept. 29, 2013, file photo, a Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)

Terror attacks drop, but Pakistan ‘not out of the woods’

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

This photo provided by Tariq Ghazniwal shows an aircraft that crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. The U.S. military says it is investigating reports of an airplane crash in Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Maj. Beth Riordan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Central Command, said that it remained unclear whose aircraft was involved in the crash. (Tariq Ghazniwal via AP)

Pentagon confirms that U.S. military plane crashed in Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman walks on a street overlooking the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Tamana Sarwary) ** FILE **

Afghan passenger plane crashes in Taliban-held eastern area

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad pauses while speaking about the prospects for peace, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. Afghanistan’s former deputy minister says Khalilzad is in the Afghan capital “to discuss the latest in peace efforts.” Former deputy foreign minister Hekmat Karzai tweeted pictures of his meeting with Khalilzad Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, saying ‘we spoke about the way forward.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Taliban say frustrated by additional demands of US

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, Spc. Angel Batista, 26, left to right, of Bloomingdale, N.J., Spc. Jacob Greene, 22, of Shreveport, La., and Sgt. Joe Altmann, 26, of Marshfield, Wisc., with the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment based in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, sit beneath a new American flag just raised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Sept. 11, 2011 at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Most Afghans want US and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end Afghanistan's 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey carried out by the American Institute of War and Peace Studies. The survey conducted in 2019, between Nov. 23 and Dec. 20 has a five percent margin of error. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Survey: Nearly half of Afghans want US troops out after deal

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghan officials: US airstrike killed 10 civilians in Herat

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

A U.S. Marine Corps carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, Thursday, April 11, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Slutman, of Newark, Del., was among three American service members killed by a roadside bomb on Monday, April 8, near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Iran expands Taliban support, targets U.S. troops in Afghanistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Tarah McLaughlin, the widow of Staff Sgt. Ian Paul McLaughlin, touches her husband's coffin on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, on Fort Bragg, N.C. McLaughlin was killed Jan. 11 in Afghanistan. (Andrew Craft /The Fayetteville Observer via AP)

Remains of fallen US soldier returned to Fort Bragg

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In this May 28, 2019, photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad held on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, the first official talks with Afghanistan's Taliban since last September when President Donald Trump declared a near-certain peace deal with the insurgents dead. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) **FILE**

Taliban say they handed cease-fire offer to US peace envoy

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

An ambulance heading to an area hit by avalanches, waits for a blocked road to be opened, in Keran, a small town in Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Severe winter weather has claimed more lives as avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall killed more than 50 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir while a dozen died in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)

Pakistan: 21 more bodies recovered in avalanche-hit Kashmir

By ROSHAN MUGHAL - Associated Press

In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

IG says U.S. officials pressured to hide Afghan problems

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

People sit around a fire to warm themselves after a heavy snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left dozens dead, officials said Monday as authorities struggled to clear and reopen highways and evacuate people to safer places. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Harsh weather kills 70 more people in Pakistan, Afghanistan

By ROSHAN MUGHAl and RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Ex-Green Beret admits to scheme to take government cash

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Indian state challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Afghan official: Bombs kill 2 children in northern province

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Northam offers condolences after Virginia soldier killed

Associated Press

In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, photo, people walk on a road during heavy snow fall in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province. Much of the damage was caused in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province where Imran Zarkon, the head of provincial disaster management authority said 14 people were killed in the past 24 hours because of roofs amid winter's unusual snowfall, which also blocked highways and disrupted normal life. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Severe weather in Afghanistan, Pakistan leaves 54 dead

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and ABDUL SATTAR - Associated Press

2 Soldiers killed in Afghanistan from Virginia, Illinois

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press