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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 photo, Nizaruddin Alizada, 20, a member of the Afghanistan Snowboarding Federation practices on the hillside known as Kohe Koregh, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. While Afghanistan’s capital may seem an unlikely destination for snowboarders, a group of young Afghans is looking to put the city on the winter sports map and change perceptions about their war-weary nation. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

War-weary Afghan youth turn to snowboarding for thrills

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

FILE- in this Saturday, April 20, 2019, photo, Afghan journalists work behind a barrier at the site of an attack on the Telecommunication Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan. Limiting access to information by the Afghan government is not acceptable, said an official form an Afghan watchdog after around 30 media outlets protested severe limitation to information in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)

Afghan media outlets protest curtailed access to information

By RAHIM FAIEZ - 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

Afghan official says explosion in capital Kabul kills 2

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A woman walks on a street overlooking the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Tamana Sarwary) ** FILE **

Afghan passenger plane crashes in Taliban-held eastern area

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FILE - In this June 25, 2019 photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, walks from a helicopter with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass. Bass is leaving Afghanistan, ending his two-year tenure as America's ambassador to the war-weary country that began in December 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

US ambassador leaves Kabul, ends 2-year Afghan tenure

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, photo, Maulvi Niaz Mohammad, 45, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press inside the Pul-e-Charkhi jail in Kabul, Afghanistan. Thousands of Taliban prisoners jailed as insurgents see a peace deal being hammered out in Qatar as their ticket to freedom. Prisoner release is a key pillar of any agreement the U.S. strikes with the Taliban to end Afghanistan’s 18-year war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

In Afghanistan, jailed Taliban await peace, their freedom

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan official: Bomb stuck to car goes off in Kabul, 1 dead

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In this Saturday, 9, 2019, photo, Suraya Shaheedi, 26, Tattoo artist, left, pierced tattoo to a male customer in Kabul, Afghanistan. It’s been 18 months since Shaheedi started her mobile tattoo shop in the capital, Kabul. She’s received death threats for taking on the taboo of the ink-on-skin drawings she does — as well as being a single woman willing to work with men.. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A tattoo at a time, Afghan woman takes on society’s taboos

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghan officials: 2 federal prosecutors shot dead near Kabul

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In this Oct. 29, 2019 photo, Yousuf, who fled with his family from his home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago to escape the war, sits with children while his wife burns plastic as she makes tea, in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the capital, Kabul, five of his children died, not from violence or bombings, but from air pollution, worsened by bitter cold and poverty. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan capital’s air pollution may be even deadlier than war

By RAHIM FAIEZ - 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

Afghan official: Kabul to probe Pakistan security complaint

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FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Doha, speaks to the media 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. Shaheen said Tuesday that the talks are planned for Oct. 28 and 29. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban say new intra-Afghan peace talks to be held in China

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, left, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, talk to each other during a meeting in Moscow, Russia. Taliban officials say several of the group’s members have been freed from Afghan jails, including former shadow governors, the first move of its kind since a peace deal that seemed imminent was declared “dead” and just days after a U.S. envoy met with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other top Taliban leaders in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban say Afghanistan has freed several of their prisoners

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

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)

Fraud, misconduct threaten Afghan presidential election

By RAHIM FAIEZ and 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 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

In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, photo, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a candidate in Afghanistan’s upcoming presidential election poses for a photo, in Kabul, Afghanistan. From American ally to US-declared terrorist, and now presidential candidate in Saturday’s polls, Hekmatyar’s past is inextricably linked to Afghanistan’s volatile history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AP Interview: From warlord to Afghan presidential candidate

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Former President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

AP Interview: Karzai says Afghan election threatens peace

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center, takes part during the Climate Strike, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 in New York. Rallies calling for action on climate change are happening in cities around the world Friday ahead of a summit on the issue. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Young protesters around globe demand climate change action

By Jennifer Peltz and Frank Jordans - Associated Press