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Afghan security forces arrive during a fight against Taliban fighters in Kunduz province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The Taliban have launched a new large-scale attack on one of Afghanistan's main cities, Kunduz, and taken hospital patients as hostages, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America's longest war. (AP Photo/Bashir Khan Safi)

The Latest: Afghan official: Blast kills at least 5, 50 hurt

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Afghan men carry an injured girl into the hospital after a large explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Afghan officials say a large explosion in Kabul has targeted the Green Village compound, home to several international organizations and guesthouses. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban attacks Kabul after ‘principle’ Afghanistan deal announced

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Afghan security forces arrive during a fight against Taliban fighters in Kunduz province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The Taliban have launched a new large-scale attack on one of Afghanistan's main cities, Kunduz, and taken hospital patients as hostages, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America's longest war. (AP Photo/Bashir Khan Safi)

Trump administration optimistic for Taliban peace deal despite fighting, U.S. deaths in Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 photo, An Independent Afghan artist paints tulips on blast walls in Kabul, Afghanistan, For almost a year, Afghanistan's more than 30 million people have been in the awkward position of waiting as a United States envoy and the Taliban negotiate their country's fate behind closed doors. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)

War-weary Afghans have little voice in their country’s fate

By CARA ANNA and TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghan security forces stand guard during a fight against Taliban fighters in Kunduz province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The Taliban have launched a new large-scale attack on one of Afghanistan's main cities, Kunduz, and taken hospital patients as hostages, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America's longest war. (AP Photo/Bashir Khan Safi)

Taliban launch major attack on Afghan city of Kunduz

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

NATO says US service member killed in combat in Afghanistan

Associated Press

President Donald Trump announces the establishment of the U.S. Space Command during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Taliban deal close, US troops to drop to 8,600

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

Asad Majeed Khan calls on U.S. to pressure India on Kashmir curfew

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghanistan expects US-Taliban update soon as deal nears

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

In this Aug. 21, 2019, photo, a nurse, right, checks the height of a malnourished girl, Humaira, in a ward at Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Whimpering and badly malnourished, the children are among the most vulnerable in a country that remains one of the poorest in the world. Now an expected United States-Taliban agreement to end nearly 18 years of fighting raises questions about whether humanitarian aid will decline as foreign troops withdraw. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

As troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, will aid stream out?

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dunford: Too early to discuss full pullout from Afghanistan

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Illustration on the Taliban and ISIS by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The Taliban’s dilemma

By Gary Anderson

In this Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 photo, Shogofa Sadiqi, right, chief director of Zan TV speaks with a staff member at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan. Young women in Afghanistan are the most vulnerable population, and perhaps the most defiant, as the United States and the Taliban near a deal on ending America’s longest war. Worried about losing what they've gained over nearly two decades, they are demanding a voice in high-level talks to determine their country’s future. About two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population is 25 or younger, with little or no memory of the Taliban’s harsh form of Islamic law prior to the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Young Afghan women barely remember Taliban but fear a return

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, third from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban have resumed negotiations on ending America’s longest war. A Taliban member said Khalilzad also had a one-on-one meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, with Baradar, the Taliban’s lead negotiator, in Qatar, where the insurgent group has a political office. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US and Taliban resume talks on ending America’s longest war

By KATHY GANNON and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Lawyer Bernard Collaery, center, leaves the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court in Canberra, Australia, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Collaery is one of two whistleblowers who appeared in the court charged separately with leaking classified government information that alleges Australia bugged of East Timor’s Cabinet and potential war crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

2 whistleblowers appear in Australian court over leaks

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Green Berets killed in combat in Afghanistan identified

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Men mourn for the victims of the Dubai City wedding hall bombing during a memorial service at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. Hundreds of people have gathered in mosques in Afghanistan's capital for memorials for scores of people killed in a horrific suicide bombing at a Kabul wedding over the weekend. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Afghan official: Wedding attack’s death toll rises to 80

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

An Afghan woman cries as she touches a banner displaying photographs of victims of the Dubai City wedding hall bombing during a memorial service in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. The deadly bombing at a wedding in Afghanistan's capital late last Saturday that killed dozens of people was a stark reminder that the war-weary country faces daily threats not only from the long-established Taliban but also from a brutal local affiliate of the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Correction: Afghanistan story

By RAHIM FAIEZ and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 photo, conservator Sherazuddin Saifi works on pieces of a small statue damaged by the Taliban because they were judged to be against Islam, at the National Museum of Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Museum workers in Kabul have been trying to fit shattered antiquities together again as a nervous country waits for the Taliban and the U.S. to reach a deal on ending America’s longest war. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Afghans restore art shattered by Taliban as peace deal nears

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Damaged Dubai City wedding hall is seen after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug.18, 2019. A suicide-bomb blast ripped through a wedding party on a busy Saturday night. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

ISIS undercuts Donald Trump’s push for Afghan peace deal, troop withdrawal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times