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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

James Mattis, U.S. defense secretary, arrives in Kabul, will meet with Afghan president

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks during a meeting with Estonian Defense Minister Juri Luik at the Pentagon in Washington. Mattis on Sunday, March 11, 2018, warned the Syrian government not to use chemical weapons in its civil war and said the Trump administration has made it clear that it would be &quot;very unwise&quot; to use gas in attacks. Mattis said Russia, which intervened militarily in Syria to support the Assad government, could be complicit in the civilian casualties. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

US Defense Secretary Mattis arrives in Afghan capital

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Security personnel carry a body at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Friday, March 9, 2018. A suicide bomber targeting Afghanistan's minority Hazaras blew himself up at a police checkpoint in western Kabul on Friday, killing nine people and wounding more than a dozen, officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

The Latest: Afghan president condemns IS attack in Kabul

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Security forces inspect the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 2, 2018. A large explosion in the eastern part of the Afghan capital on Friday morning killed at least one person an Afghan official said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Suicide bomb in Afghan capital kills young girl, wounds 15

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

State National Guard unit pursues humanitarian mission

By JONATHAN M. PITTS - 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

Afghan National Army soldiers take position near the entrance gate of Marshal Fahim academy after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. Insurgents attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: IS attacks Afghan military academy, killing 11

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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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A distraught man is carried following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. Authorities say attackers stormed the Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off multiple bombs and killing dozens. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Islamic State kills 41 in attack on Afghan cultural center

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

A distraught man is carried following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. Authorities say attackers stormed the Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off multiple bombs and killing dozens. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Kabul attack: Suicide bombers storm Shiite cultural center; 41 killed

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Former US military interpreter in Afghanistan now in Houston

By St. JOHN BARNED-SMITH - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2017 photo, Mike Duncan, poses in his Corvallis, Ore., home. Duncan, was injured in 2009 in Afghanistan while searching for Bowe Bergdahl, who had deserted his post. Duncan is now a physician assistant with Samaritan Health Services in Corvallis. (Andy Cripe /The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP)

Corvallis man injured in search says he’s forgiven solider

By LILLIAN SCHROCK - Associated Press

The combat situation in Afghanistan remains a stalemate, with the central government in Kabul not ceding any territory to the Taliban while not making any significant gains against the terrorist group over the past year. (Associated Press)

U.S. goal: Drive Taliban from 80% of Afghanistan in 2 years

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

American and allied forces executed more airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State strongholds in the country than in any year since 2014, but the Taliban claimed control of nine districts previously held by government forces over the past six months. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Afghanistan war strategy faces grim challenges

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An Afghan health worker escorts a suspected drug addict during a campaign to collect drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The young men are then taken to a rehab center where they spend three months trying to kick the habit before they are reunited with their families. The process is part of a new campaign in the country with one of the highest rates of drug use in the world.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan police round up Kabul addicts in fight against drugs

By RAHMAT GUL - Associated Press

Afghan suicide bombing kills five, wounds 29 others outside of mosque

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, speaks during a press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. The spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry said several civilians have been wounded in a rocket attack at Kabul's international airport as Mattis and Stoltenberg are in Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: US airstrike caused civilian casualties

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Hamdullah Mohib (left), Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, said the Trump administration's plan for a long-term occupation in his country is the right way to capitalize on gains made in the past 16 years of war. (Associated Press/File)

Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s ambassador, welcomes Trump’s plan for long-term U.S. occupation

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 file photo, a Pakistani boy, whose brother was killed in bombing, is comforted by a relative in Quetta, Pakistan. Thousands of Pakistani and Afghan Shiites have been recruited by Iran to fight in Syria generating fears that their return could aggravate sectarian rivalries, say counterterrorism officials as well as analysts, who track militant movements. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)

Iran recruits Afghan and Pakistani Shiites to fight in Syria

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press