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UN: Monthly Afghan casualties highest since 2017

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Afghan security forces stand guard at the site of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. A complex attack against the office of the president's running mate and a former chief of intelligence service Amrullah Saleh on Sunday in the capital Kabul, killed scores of people, an official said on Monday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Pentagon report shows sharp drop in number of Afghan security forces

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this April 30, 2019, photo, migrants seeking asylum in the United States line up for a meal provided by volunteers near the international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Mujeeb Rahman Saify, Afghan translator, indicted on human trafficking charges

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Friday, April 26, 2019, image made from video, officers hold up an Islamic State group flag in Arabic that reads: &quot;There is no God, but Allah&quot; and &quot;Allah, Prophet, Muhammad&quot; during a raid on a house in Sainthamaruthu, Sri Lanka. Militants linked to Easter suicide bombings opened fire and set off explosives during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on the house in the country's east, leaving behind a grisly discovery Saturday: 15 bodies, including six children. (AP Photo)

ISIS shares shocking video of beheading as children cheer

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

US envoy in Pakistan ahead of key Taliban talks

By MUNIR AHMED and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019, as Trump announced that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mike Pompeo: U.S. eyes conditional Afghan pullout in talks with Taliban

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Afghans assist a wounded man in a hospital after a roadside bomb on the main highway between the western city of Herat and the southern city of Kandahar, in Herat, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. A roadside bomb tore through a bus in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, including children, a provincial official said. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)

Bus strikes roadside bomb in Afghanistan; 32 killed

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Pentagon identifies 2 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Afghan security personnel secure the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 28, 2019. Afghan officials say the political offices of the president's running mate were hit by a large explosion and stormed by an unknown number of attackers. Nasrat Rahimi, the interior ministry spokesman, said vice-presidential candidate and former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh survived the attack. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

UN says Afghan forces, allies killed most civilians in 2019

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

UN report: Conflicts kill and hurt a record 12,000 children

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. America began bombing Afghanistan after 9/11 to root out al-Qaida fighters, who were being harbored by the Taliban. Nearly 19 years later, Khalilzad says he’s satisfied with the militant group’s pledge to keep terror groups from using Afghanistan as a launch pad for attacks against the West. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Taliban vows future Afghanistan won’t be terrorists’ hotbed

By DEB RIECHMANN and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

400 Illinois National Guards troops heading to Afghanistan

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Afghan activist: Any peace deal must ensure women’s rights

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US man accused of seeking to join Taliban to fight Americans

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Afghan police arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, July 25, 2019. Police say the target of the attack Thursday morning was a passenger bus belonging to the Ministry of Mines. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Correction: Afghanistan story

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Afghan boys collects the remains of a suicide attacker's vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Croatia’s defense ministry said Wednesday that one of three soldiers injured in an apparent attack by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, has died. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Croatia says 1 soldier dies, 2 injured in Afghanistan attack

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 19, 2019, photo, Hameda, 8, works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. and its allies have sunk billions of dollars of aid into Afghanistan since the invasion to oust the Taliban 18 years ago, but the country remains mired in poverty. Signs of hardship are everywhere, from children begging in the streets to entire families _ including children as young as five or six _ working at brick kilns in the sweltering heat.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Mired in poverty, Afghans bring their children to work

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Jake and Ashley Lyerla are interviewed at their home, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Milroy, Ind. A federal program to help injured veterans and their spouses conceive children through in vitro fertilization is being hobbled by anti-abortion forces that oppose how the process can lead to embryos being destroyed. Those limitations have been a problem for couples like Jacob and Ashley Lyerla, who needed to use donor sperm and eggs to create viable embryos after three heart-wrenching rounds of IVF using their own genetic material failed. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Abortion arguments at play in limiting veterans’ IVF benefit

By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at Turning Point USA's Teen Student Action Summit 2019, Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Afghanistan demands Trump explain quip he could wipe the country off the Earth

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Afghans seek clarity on Trump’s talk of wiping country out

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