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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, at the Residence of the Pakistani Ambassador in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pakistan PM says Taliban may soon release 2 hostages

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gestures as he greets Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan as he arrives at the White House, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald Trump says U.S. could win Afghan war ‘in a week,’ but wants Pakistan’s help in negotiation

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, walk the Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office, as they return to the White House from the Supreme Court, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump seeks Pakistan’s help to end long Afghanistan war

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan a former cricket star, makes his first trip to the White House on Monday since his election 11 months ago. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump, Imran Khan meeting unpredictable

By Moss Brennan - The Washington Times

Military personnel carry the remains of Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins into St. James Catholic Church in Ogden, Utah on Thursday, July 18, 2019. Robbins died in a non-combat incident on June 30 while serving in Afghanistan. (Ben Dorger/Standard-Examiner via AP)

Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan buried in Utah

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Lindsey Graham urges Donald Trump to not agree to ‘absurd’ demands from Taliban

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Ahmad Khalid Fahim, program director for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan shows the group's website during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The Swedish non-governmental organization in Afghanistan said the Taliban have forced the closure of 42 health facilities run by the non-profit group in eastern Maidan Wardan province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban to talk to Swedish NGO after Afghan clinic closures

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Ahmad Khalid Fahim, program director for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The Swedish non-governmental organization in Afghanistan said the Taliban have forced the closure of 42 health facilities run by the non-profit group in eastern Maidan Wardan province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban close Afghan health facilities run by Swedish group

By RAHIM FAIEZ and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

US service member killed in action in Afghanistan

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Child suicide bomber kills 5 at Afghan wedding

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 19, 2009 file photo, Pakistan's pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad leaves after addressing his supporters in Mingora Pakistan. Mohammad, from Pakistan who traveled to neighboring Afghanistan to battle international forces after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, has died at the age of 94. Family members say he died Thursday July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Pakistani cleric who fought US forces in Afghanistan dies

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad smiles at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. Khalilzad, U.S. peace envoy to Afghanistan, is in Beijing for a previously scheduled meeting, an American Embassy spokesman said Thursday, July 11, 2019, amid signs of new momentum in efforts to end Afghanistan's 17-year war and push by China to boost its influence in the region. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US peace envoy to Afghanistan in Beijing for meeting

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, left, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, second left, and other members of the Taliban delegation speak to reporters prior to their talks in Moscow, Russia. The seventh and latest round of peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban is &quot;critical,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Sunday June 30, 2019, the second day of talks with Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where the militant group maintains a political office. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

All-Afghan conference brings country closer to peace

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan Burnout Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How Afghanistan is haunted by its history of insecurity

By Nasir Shansab

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

Party honors Utah mayor killed in Afghanistan

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The seventh and latest round of peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban is &quot;critical,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Sunday, June 30, 2019, the second day of talks with Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where the militant group maintains a political office. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US envoy hails latest talks with Taliban as the best ever

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Islamic State claims bombing in Shiite mosque that killed 2

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Colorado town honors Army sergeant, rallies around widow

By SETH BOSTER - Associated Press

Afghan official: Taliban mortars hit busy market, kill 14

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