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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, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Baradar and a team of 14 Taliban are in Moscow where they are scheduled to meet other Afghans including former President Hamid Karzai and some of the candidates in the presidential elections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Taliban notes ‘spectacular progress’ in Afghan peace talks

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UN agency: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Afghan National Army soldiers attend their graduation ceremony from a 3-month training program at the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Officials: Taliban attacks kill 10 Afghan troops, 4 police

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Heavy flooding in Afghanistan kills 24 people in 2 days

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Ceremony set for Arizona Guard unit back from Afghanistan

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FILE - This file image taken Dec. 1, 2001, from television footage in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, shows John Walker Lindh, right, claiming to be an American Taliban volunteer. Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free Thursday, May 23, 2019, after nearly two decades in prison. (AP Video, File)

AP Was There: The roots of the ‘American Taliban’

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD - 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. Khalilzad was met with skepticism on Capitol Hill Wednesday, May 22, as he briefed lawmakers on peace talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Afghanistan envoy briefs skeptical lawmakers on peace talks

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Russia raises alarm about Islamic extremists in Afghanistan

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Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad approaches the microphone to speak on the prospects for peace, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Zalmay Khalilzad Taliban talks leave Afghanistan in dark

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Afghan municipality workers clean debris in front of the damaged buildings a day after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 9, 2019. Taliban fighters attacked the offices of a U.S.-based aid organization in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion and battling security forces in an assault, the Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban attack on U.S.-based aid group raises concern in Kabul

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Army training brigade prepares for new worldwide deployments

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Taliban kill 12 Afghan policemen, troops in separate attacks

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Taliban kill 13 Afghan police in attack on compound

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2001 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, then Deputy ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, gives an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Taliban say the gap is narrowing in talks with Washington's special peace envoy over a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The two sides are continuing to meet in Qatar, where the insurgent movement maintains a political office. In a voice message sent Saturday, May 4, 2019, to The Associated Press, the Taliban spokesman in Doha says both sides have offered new proposals for drawing down U.S. and NATO forces. (AP Photo/Tariq Aziz, File)

Taliban say gap narrowing in talks with US

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, Afghan Taliban fighters listen to Mullah Mohammed Rasool, the newly-elected leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, in Farah province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan may not be ready for peace unless it formulates a strategy for re-integration of Taliban fighters into society, combating corruption and reining in the country’s runaway narcotics problem, a U.S. watchdog said Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo, File)

US watchdog: Afghans may not be ready for ‘day after’ peace

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2019, file photo, acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, left, arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan, to consult with Army Gen. Scott Miller, right, commander of U.S. and coalition forces, and senior Afghan government leaders. Amid a bloody stalemate in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America’s longest war. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

U.S. military stops releasing Afghanistan war information

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Backdropped by his own image, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks to delegates during the first day of the Afghan Loya Jirga meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 29, 2019. Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani opened the Loya Jirga grand council on Monday with more than 3,200 prominent Afghans attending to seek an agreed common approach for future peace talks with the Taliban, but the gathering may further aggravate divisions within the U.S.-backed government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan leader, holds council to set agenda for Taliban talks

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017 file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. The longest direct talks ever held between the United States and the Taliban concluded this week with both sides citing progress toward ending the 17-year war, but many questions remain unanswered. The two sides seem to be in agreement about the withdrawal of American forces, but divided over the timeline and whether a residual force would remain. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

EDITORIAL: Losing the war in Afghanistan

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, photo, Khadeja, 16, who was burned by a pot of scalding hot water thrown by her husband, shows her wounds, at a women's shelter office in Herat, Afghanistan. The suffering of young women like Khadeja is why women rights activists say they are demanding a seat at the table in negotiations between the government and the Taliban over peace and Afghanistan’s future. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan women push for voice in talks, fearing loss of rights

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, photo, Khadeja, 16, who was burned by a pot of scalding hot water thrown by her husband, shows her wounds, at a women's shelter office in Herat, Afghanistan. The suffering of young women like Khadeja is why women rights activists say they are demanding a seat at the table in negotiations between the government and the Taliban over peace and Afghanistan’s future. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan women demand seat at peace talks but face resistance

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press