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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (center) held his inauguration with second Vice President Sarwar Danish (right) and first Vice President Amrullah Salehnistan on Monday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S. peace talks in doubt as Afghan leaders feud

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Second Vice President Sarwar Danish, right, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center and first Vice President Amrullah Saleh, attend a ceremony for Ghani winning a 2nd term in the presidential election, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Ashraf Ghani-Abdullah Abdullah feud threatens Trump Afghanistan peace deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks at the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany. The Afghan Independent Election Commission said Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, that President Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

Election commission: Afghan president Ghani wins 2nd term

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

National army soldiers stand guard at the site of suicide attack near the military academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. A suicide bomber targeting a military academy in the Afghan capital on Tuesday killed at least six people, including two civilians and four military personnel, the Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

U.S., Taliban close to ‘reduction in violence’ agreement

By Iason Athanasiadis, Kathy Gannon and Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, left, meets U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Khalilzad has met with Pakistan's foreign minister to find a peaceful solution to neighboring Afghanistan's war. (Pakistan Foreign Office via AP)

Airstrikes on the rise as US pursues Afghan peace talks

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Hawa Alam Nuristani, center, chief of Election Commission of Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. The election commission is to announce the results of the Sept. 28 election Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president appears to win new term in initial results

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, leaves after addressing the media following a conference with his party members and few candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Afghanistan's leading presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, announced temporary truce, agreeing to allow ballot recount Sunday in provinces where his supporters had stopped the process for almost a month. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Afghan presidential candidate to allow ballot recount

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad pauses while speaking about the prospects for peace, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. Afghanistan’s former deputy minister says Khalilzad is in the Afghan capital “to discuss the latest in peace efforts.” Former deputy foreign minister Hekmat Karzai tweeted pictures of his meeting with Khalilzad Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, saying ‘we spoke about the way forward.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US’s Afghan peace envoy makes surprise stop in Kabul

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump smiles while sitting with the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump thanks troops in Afghanistan, says Taliban want a deal

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks on the last day of the Afghan Loya Jirga meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban officials have told The Associated Press that three Taliban prisoners released by Kabul have been flown to Qatar for a swap for an American and an Australian hostage held by the insurgents. The three Taliban prisoners were to have been freed more than one week ago by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Trump thanks Khan, Ghani for helping with hostages’ release

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2019 file photo, Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the start of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London. Three Taliban prisoners who were to be freed in exchange for an American and an Australian national, both kidnapped in 2016, are still in custody in Bagram prison, north of the capital Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Friday, Nov. 15. The three Taliban prisoners did not show up at an exchange site that had been agreed upon with the U.S., though Ghani said they would be freed. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

Taliban say prisoner swap promised by Kabul fails to happen

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Sept. 28, 2019, file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks to journalists after voting at Amani high school, near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. President Ghani said Tuesday, Nov. 12, his government has released three Taliban figures in an effort to have the insurgents free an American and an Australian professor they abducted in 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani: 3 Taliban released for held U.S., Australian

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, 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. The Taliban said Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, that a fresh round of intra-Afghan peace talks is to be held in China next week. The announcement raises hopes for renewed negotiations, even as violence surges in Afghanistan’s 18-year war. Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, said Tuesday that the talks are planned for Oct. 28 and 29. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Afghan president, Chinese FM discuss dialogue with Taliban

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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018 file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, listens during a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at the presidential palace, in Kabul, Afghanistan. While there will be 18 names on the presidential ballot when Afghans go to the polls on Sept. 28 only five, including Ghani, have been campaigning after several suspended their campaigns believing a peace deal with the Taliban was imminent. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Top 5 Afghan presidential candidates in Saturday’s election

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 photo, an Afghan soldier stands guard in front of an election poster for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban have warned Afghanistan’s 9.6 million eligible voters to stay away from polling stations during Saturday’s presidential election. Ghani and and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah -- who shared power for five years in a so-called unity government -- are the leading contenders in the election. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

At a glance: Key factors in Afghanistan’s tense election

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 photo, Afghan security forces stand guard in front of an election poster for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan. Millions of Afghans are expected to go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, despite an upsurge of violence in the weeks since the collapse of a U.S.-Taliban deal to end America’s longest war, and the Taliban warning voters to say away from the polls. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans face presidential vote amid violence, corruption

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election speaks during an interview at his home, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Abdullah Abdullah, a leading contender in this weekend's presidential election, is alleging widespread abuses of power by his rival, incumbent President Ashraf Ghani. The painting behind Abdullah shows him with Ahmad Shah Masood, a hero to some in Afghanistan, who was killed in an al Qaida suicide bombing on Sept. 9, 2001, just two days before Al Qaida terrorists attacked the United States killing nearly 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AP Interview: Key Afghan presidential candidate claims fraud

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, photo, Afghan security forces stand guard in front of an election poster for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan. Millions of Afghans are expected to go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, despite an upsurge of violence in the weeks since the collapse of a U.S.-Taliban deal to end Americas longest war, and the Taliban warning voters to say away from the polls. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban threatens Afghanistan elections after U.S. peace talks collapse

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Election commission workers prepare ballot boxes and election materials for the presidential election scheduled for Sept 28, at the Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Afghan officials say around 100,000 members of the country's security forces are ready for polling day. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: Official says at least 22 killed in Kabul attack

Associated Press

In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony to introduce the new chief of the intelligence service, in Kabul, Afghanistan. President Donald Trump's halt to U.S.-Taliban talks looks like a gift to the beleaguered Afghan president, who has insisted on holding a key election in less than three weeks’ time despite widespread expectations that a peace deal would push it aside. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban kill 24 at Afghan president’s rally; Ashraf Ghani unhurt

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press