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In this May, 6, 2020, photo, beggars sleep on the side of the road in Kabul, Afghanistan, where there have been an increase in the number of beggars during the city lockdown for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rahim Faiez)

VIRUS DIARY: `Father, why don’t they stay home like we do?’

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020 photo, members of the Aryubi family walk to a graveyard where Dr. Yousuf Aryubi and two siblings who lost their lives to COVID-19 are buried, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dr. Aryubi's family assumed they just had a bad cold, as one after another, they came down with fevers and coughs -- all because one of the Afghan capital's main hospitals never told them the results of his coronavirus test. Their tragedy points to how a broken-down health system, slow government response and public attitudes have left Afghanistan deeply vulnerable to the global pandemic. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

With test results lost, an Afghan family fell to virus

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and RAHIM FAIEZ and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Afghan Taliban prisoners are released from Bagram Prison in Parwan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2020.The Afghan government freed hundreds of prisoners, its single largest prisoner release since the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace deal earlier this year that spells out an exchange of detainees between the warring sides. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan peace talks see life with Taliban prisoner release

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

Taliban, Ghani declare three-day cease fire for Eid holiday

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Smokes rises from a maternity hospital, after gunmen attacked in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Gunmen stormed the hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off a shootout with the police and killing several people. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan maternity ward attack undermines Taliban peace plan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A mother breastfeeds her two-day-old baby at the Ataturk Children's Hospital a day after they were rescued from a deadly attack on another maternity hospital, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Militants stormed the Barchi National Maternity Hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing tens of people, including two newborn babies, their mothers and an unspecified number of nurses, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Death toll from attack on Kabul maternity clinic rises to 24

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Smokes rises from a hospital after gunmen attacked in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Gunmen stormed the hospital in the western part of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, setting off a gun battle with the police, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan gunmen storm maternity clinic in Shiite area of Kabul

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan official says 2 explosions rock Kabul; no injuries

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U.S. special operations service members conduct combat operations in support of Operation Resolute Support in Southeast Afghanistan, May 2019. RS is a NATO-led mission to train, advise, and assist the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and institutions. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jaerett Engeseth)

U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan advances despite Taliban attacks, coronavirus

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghan special forces stand guard at the site of a suicide bomber attack on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. A suicide bomber on Wednesday targeted a base belonging to Afghan special forces on the southern outskirts of the capital, Kabul, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan officials: Suicide bomber kills 3 civilians in Kabul

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Washington. Pompeo said Wednesday that the Group of Seven members were all aware of China's "disinformation campaign" regarding the coronavirus outbreak, as the two countries dispute the origins of the disease. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

ISIS attack kills dozens in Kabul, adding fresh strain to peace deal and U.S. troop drawdown

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, photo, Afghanistan's Abdullah Abdullah, front left, greets his supporters after being sworn in as president in Kabul, Afghanistan. Washington moved forward Tuesday on its peace deal with the Taliban, launching its troop withdrawal, while praising Afghanistan's newly installed President Ashraf Ghani's promise to proceed with a Taliban prisoner release as well as cobble together a team to start negotiations with the insurgent group. But the dueling presidential inaugurations a day earlier with Ghani's rival, Abdullah Abdullah also being sworn in as president is indicative of the uphill task facing Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad as he tries to get Afghanistan's bickering leadership to come together. (AP Photo)

U.S. starts troop pullout, seeks end to Afghan leaders’ feud

By Kathy Gannon and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan official killed in capital by unknown gunmen

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Foreign security personnel and Afghan police arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 6, 2020. An Afghan official said gunmen in Afghanistan’s capital attacked a remembrance ceremony for a minority Shiite leader. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Officials say gunmen kill 32 at ceremony in Afghan capital

By Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 2, 2020, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, speaks during a briefing with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, at the Pentagon in Washington. The U.S. military said Wednesday, March 4, 2020, that it has conducted an airstrike against Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, only days after American and Taliban officials signed an ambitious peace deal in Doha, Qatar. A U.S. military spokesman said in a tweet Wednesday that it was the first U.S. strike against the militant group in 11 days. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Donald Trump’s Taliban deal thrown into question by wave of attacks and U.S. strike

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Dove Formation Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

If Taliban initiates any new war offensive in Afghanistan, U.S. must get involved

By Gary Anderson

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah attend before a joint news conference in presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. The U.S. signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing U.S. troops to return home from America's longest war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US peace deal leaves Afghans to determine post-war landscape

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A timeline of key events in Afghanistan’s 40 years of wars

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this June 16, 2018, file photo, Taliban fighters gather with residents to celebrate a three-day cease fire marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Many Afghans view Saturday's expected signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal with a heavy dose of well-earned skepticism. They've spent decades living in a country at war — some their whole lives — and wonder if they can ever reach a state of peace. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghans view U.S.-Taliban deal with well-earned skepticism

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

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