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The Bottomless Pit of Afghanistan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Afghanistan war may be unwinnable

By Cal Thomas

Donald Trump unveils pillar policy changes in Afghanistan war

By S.A. Miller and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this June 21, 2017 file photo, a subway train approaches the platform at Brooklyn's Smith Street above-ground subway station, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Al Qaeda targets U.S. trains

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

UN: Islamic State is funding attacks, al-Qaida is resilient

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE -- In this June 19, 2016 file photo, a Lebanese army soldier takes his position overlooking an area controlled by the Islamic State group at the edge of the town of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon. Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of IS militants from a remote corner of northeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, seeking to end a years-long threat posed to neighboring towns and villages by the extremists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 photo released by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows al-Qaida-linked militants seated in a bus with their families, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. A large convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants began arriving at a transfer point in the western Syrian Hama province to complete their journey to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media via AP)

Truce goes into effect in another Syria ‘safe zone’

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

The Peshmerga: Fearsome, fearless fighters

By Michael Pregent

Illustration on the end of al Jazeera by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Al Jazeera should be ended

By Clifford D. May

Macron to meet West African leaders on new anti-terror force

By BABA AHMED and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jun. 9, 2017 file photo, people stand on the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

From destruction to cholera, Yemen war brings disasters

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, March 27, 2017, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gestures while speaking during a news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano following their talks in Moscow, Russia. Lavrov said that no Russian servicemen were hurt in the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia accuses U.S. of avoiding airstrikes targeting Syrian al Qaeda affiliate

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 file photo, an Afghan army soldier adjusts his uniform during an outdoor lesson at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Sixteen years into a stalemated conflict with no end in sight, the Trump administration is planning to send more troops. Some question the wisdom of investing even more resources in Afghanistan, which is still dependent on the U.S. for everything from bullets to uniforms. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

War and waste: cautionary tales as US ponders Afghan boost

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

A former detainee shows how he was kept in handcuffs and leg shackles while held in a secret prison at Riyan airport in the Yemeni city of Mukalla in this May 11, 2017 photo. He covered his face for fear of being detained again. He and other former detainees say abuses are widespread in a network of secret prisons run by the United Arab Emirates and its Yemeni allies, into which hundreds detained in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison, where he said he was beaten with wires and wooden clubs and given electrical shocks, in this May 8, 2017 phot in Aden, Yemen. Habib was detained for weeks after Emirati-backed forces hunting for al-Qaida members raided his family’s businesses, arresting him and several of his relatives. Habib’s father, like an unknown number of other detainees, has been sent to a base of the United Arab Emirates across the Red Sea in Eritrea. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

Inside Yemen’s secret prisons: ‘We could hear the screams’

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

US report finds shortfalls in airstrike near Aleppo mosque

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this Friday, June 2, 2017 photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left, talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates Armed Forces in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Four Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar early Monday morning, June 5, further deepening a rift among Gulf Arab nations over that country's support for Islamist groups and its relations with Iran. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Arab nations cut ties with Qatar in new Mideast crisis

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. (Associated Press/File)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s ambassador, awaits Trump’s Afghanistan policy

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Clashes between US troops, al-Qaida militants in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Seeking employment: Terrorist who flipped on al-Qaida

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

The Latest: Man who joined al-Qaida sentenced to time served

Associated Press