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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham speaks during a press conference at the Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. In a surprise visit to Afghanistan, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump will announce an American troop drawdown this week, which could begin before the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

In Afghanistan, Sen. Graham says US troop drawdown possible

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

In this Saturday, 9, 2019, photo, Suraya Shaheedi, 26, Tattoo artist, left, pierced tattoo to a male customer in Kabul, Afghanistan. It’s been 18 months since Shaheedi started her mobile tattoo shop in the capital, Kabul. She’s received death threats for taking on the taboo of the ink-on-skin drawings she does — as well as being a single woman willing to work with men.. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A tattoo at a time, Afghan woman takes on society’s taboos

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

'The Deserter' (book jacket)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Deserter’

By Paul Davis

In this Jan. 15, 2018, file photo, U.S. Marines stand guard during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) ** FILE **

U.S. to pull 4,000 troops from Afghanistan: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Earlham student is 1st Rhodes Scholar from Afghanistan

By SCOTT PROCTER - Associated Press

Afghan official: Roadside bombing kills 10 civilians

Associated Press

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, leaves after addressing the media following a conference with his party members and few candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Afghanistan's leading presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, announced temporary truce, agreeing to allow ballot recount Sunday in provinces where his supporters had stopped the process for almost a month. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Afghan presidential candidate to allow ballot recount

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Landslide kills 6 Afghans in Taliban-controlled district

Associated Press

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. Karzai, whose final years in power were characterized by a cantankerous relationship with the United States, said on Tuesday that Washington used blackmail and corruption to manipulate his officials, undermine his government and foment violence among the country's many factions. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Afghanistan’s Karzai tells AP that US cash fed corruption

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

'The Taliban at War 2001-2018' (book jacket)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Taliban at War 2001-2018’

By Joshua Sinai

An Afghan boy stands on a wall near a horse tied up at a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Tens of thousands of internally displaced Afghans live in camps, which lack basic facilities, across Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Report: US misled public on progress in Afghanistan war

Associated Press

Deployment ceremony held for group of Guard members

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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**

US opens first round of resurrected peace talks with Taliban

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaks, next to the coffin of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura during a ceremony before transporting his body to his homeland, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. Nakamura was killed earlier this week in a roadside shooting in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan bids farewell to slain Japanese physician

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghans attend a candlelight vigil in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in memory of Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese physician engaged in aid work who was killed Wednesday, Dec. 4 in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Japanese doctor’s family to bring body home from Afghanistan

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

New Hampshire Guard unit getting ready to go to Afghanistan

Associated Press

-FILE- In this Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 file image the International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. Prosecutors are appealing to International Criminal Court judges to authorize a wide-ranging investigation into alleged crimes in Afghanistan's brutal conflict. In April, a panel of judges rejected a request by the court's prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, to open an investigation into crimes allegedly committed by the Taliban, Afghan security forces and American military and intelligence agencies.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Prosecution: ICC judges were wrong to reject Afghan probe

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Locals carry an injured Japanese aid worker doctor Tetsu Nakamura at a hospital in Jalalabad eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Nakamura died from his wounds after an attack that also killed five Afghans, including the doctor's bodyguards, the driver and a passenger. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Afghans hold candlelight vigil for slain Japanese doctor

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Guardsman raises money to fly cat home from Afghanistan

Associated Press

File - In this Thursday, Aug 28, 2008, file photo, Tetsu Nakamura, right, executive director of PMS Japan, participates in the memorial service for Japanese aid worker Kazuya Ito at the governor's house in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Afghan official says Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura is in serious condition after an attack in eastern Nangarhar province that killed five Afghans, including his bodyguards and driver. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)

Official: Japanese doctor dies after attack in Afghanistan

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press