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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 file photo, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, left, welcomes Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif for their talks in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. As Pakistan navigates its troubled relationship with the United States and scrambles to avoid being blacklisted for doing too little, too late to stop terrorist funding, regional alliances are shifting and analysts ponder whether a cozier relationship with countries, like Russia, will complicate efforts to plot a path to peace in Afghanistan and civility between uneasy neighbors.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Shifting alliances as Pakistan manages relationship with US

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

US general: Russia is both ‘arsonist and fireman’ in Syria

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Shoaib shows a picture of his father who along with 13 others were killed in Afghanistan’s central Ghor Province by gunmen in 2014, during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case, it has collected a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims. Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization said, the statements not only include accounts of alleged atrocities by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State, but also by Afghan Security Forces and government-affiliated warlords, the U.S.-led coalition, and foreign and domestic spy agencies. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans submitted 1.17 million war crimes claims to court

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Illustration on history repeating itself in U.S. involvement in Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How Afghanistan can take the road not taken in Vietnam

By Gary Anderson

In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Hussain Razaee, whose fiancee was among 30 people killed last July when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed car into a bus carrying employees of the Ministry of Mines, gives an interview to The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Abdul Wadood Pedram, of the Kabul-based Human Rights and Eradication of Violence Organization said, the statements not only include accounts of alleged atrocities by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State, but also by Afghan Security Forces and government-affiliated warlords, the U.S.-led coalition, and foreign and domestic spy agencies. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Court received 1.17 million war crimes claims from Afghans

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2016, file photo, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, center, is led into court in Elizabeth, N.J. Rahimi, who set off small bombs on a New York City street and at a charity race in New Jersey, is set to be sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, by a federal judge in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

The Latest: Victim confronts bomber after sentencing

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FILE - This file photo provided by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office in St. Paul, Minn., shows Tnuza Jamal Hassan, of Minnesota. Hassan, who authorities say had hoped to kill people when she set fires in January 2018 on a college campus, has been ordered detained by a federal judge. Hassan pleaded not guilty Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, to federal counts of attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida, lying to the FBI and arson. (Ramsey County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Minnesota woman ordered detained on terror, arson charges

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Iowa House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, as he arrives in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, during a meeting with state and local officials about infrastructure. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s inflated claim on costs of war

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2017, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rene Boucher, the man accused of tackling U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in the Kentucky lawmaker's yard has been charged with assaulting a member of Congress as part of a federal plea agreement. And his lawyer confirmed what's long been suggested by neighbors: The attack stemmed from a dispute about yard maintenance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Rand Paul invited to peace talks by Taliban

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

State National Guard unit pursues humanitarian mission

By JONATHAN M. PITTS - Associated Press

US drone strikes kill 11militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

US adding air power, intelligence gathering in Afghanistan

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan critical to Trump Afghanistan war plan, top official says

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, speaks, accompanied by Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Paul J. Selva, during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 in Washington. Mattis says the administration's new nuclear strategy pays the right amount of attention to arms control, even as it focuses on strengthening the nuclear force. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon: Afghan war costing US $45 billion per year

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Wais Ahmad Barmak, interior minister, left, and Masoom Stanekzai Afghanistan's intelligence chief, right, speaks during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. At the news conference Wais Ahmed Barmak said they has given neighboring Pakistan confessions and other proof that the militants who carried out a recent series of attacks were trained in Pakistan and that Taliban leaders there are allowed to roam freely. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president slams Pakistan for harboring Taliban

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Residents walk pass the house in which Islamic State insurgents were hidden, in a street of Qala-e-Walid neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The Afghan authorities found an Islamic State hideout packed with explosives in a poor western neighborhood of the capital where residents of the area say they rarely see a police patrol, and marauding bands of thieves makes it unsafe to be on the streets after dark. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Militant hideout found in Afghan capital shows security woes

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

U.S. Marines watch 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)

Marines see Afghan forces improve in Helmand battles

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16-year-old stalemated war is going. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon: Gag order on Afghan data was a mistake

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. An Afghan official and an eyewitness say blasts have been heard and a gunbattle is occurring near the military academy in the capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

11 Afghan troops die in ISIS attack on Kabul military academy

By Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah - Associated Press

An injured man is moved to a stretcher outside a hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Jan. 27, 2018. The Public Health Ministry says over a dozen were killed, and over 100 wounded in a suicide car bombing in downtown Kabul. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: Trump condemns car bomb attack in Afghanistan

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