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Afghan security forces walk around a destroyed army bus following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. Two suicide bombers in the Afghan capital targeted two buses carrying Afghan army troops on Wednesday, killing several people and wounding over a dozen others, police said. (AP Photo)

Taliban suicide bombers kill 7 in Kabul, wound 21

By Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, left, is sworn in by Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi, during his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Ghani Ahmadzai He replaces Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president sworn in, paving way for U.S. pact

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

New Afghan president, but vote totals kept secret

By Jason Straziuso and Ahim Faiez - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks as Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, center, and Abdullah Abdullah listen during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. "Radicals" backing Abdullah could foment postelection violence if he isn't given an equitable share of power, his spokesman warned Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014 ahead of a meeting with his rival aimed at resolving a monthslong election dispute. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped broker an agreement this summer under which all 8 million ballots would be recounted, a process which was concluded Friday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

SHANSAB: Time to get proactive with Afghanistan

By Nasir Shansab

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo)

AP sources: U.S. surveillance planes fly over Syria

By Lolita C. Baldor and Julie Pace - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks across the presidential palace grounds with Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq, left, and Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani on his way to a meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Kerry visited Afghanistan in hopes of diffusing a crisis over the runoff presidential election to find a successor for outgoing President Karzai. (AP Photo/Jim Boug, Pool)

Kerry: Both Afghan presidential candidates agree to 100 percent ballot audit

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200 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces were set ablaze by Taliban militants outside the Afghan capital Kabul, July 5, 2014. (Image: Chicago Tribune video screen shot)

Afghanistan on fire: Taliban set hundreds of oil tankers ablaze outside Kabul

Associated Press

Independent Election Commission (IEC) employees count ballots at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Despite a Taliban threat to stay away, Afghans lined up Saturday to vote in a presidential runoff between two candidates who both promise to improve ties with the West and combat corruption as they confront a powerful Taliban insurgency and preside over the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghans brave Taliban threats to choose new leader: ‘I want the next president to bring security’

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An MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a mission over southern Afghanistan. Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country's coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday. (USAF via Associated Press)

Obama’s Afghanistan pullout may end domination of drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, left, is introduced by Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) after arriving for a troop rally during an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Top US commander: Obama ended Afghan uncertainty

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Afghan fire fighters arrive to the scene after Taliban fighters stormed a government building in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 12, 2014. Taliban fighters stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan after killing police guards on Monday, the most serious in a wave of attacks marking the start of the insurgents' annual spring offensive. In the Taliban heartland in the south, an attack on a police checkpoint in Helmand province killed many policemen. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban kill 21 at start of Afghan spring fighting

By Rahim Faiez - The Washington Times

CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME TO JOHN GABEL. Mohammad Hadi Hadayati, Kabul University's vice chancellor speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 26, 2014. An Afghan police security guard opened fire on foreigners, on Thursday, April 24, 2014, as they entered the grounds of Cure International Hospital, killing three people, including pediatrician Dr. Jerry Umanos of Chicago. On Saturday, Kabul University vice chancellor Mohammad Hadi Hadayati identified the other two Americans killed in the attack as health clinic administrator John Gabel and his visiting father, Gary, also from the Chicago area. John Gabel’s wife, also an American, was wounded, Hadayati said. “We have lost a great man, a great teacher, a man who was here only to serve the Afghan people,” Hadayati said. John Gabel worked for the U.S.-based charity Morning Star Development and ran a health clinic at Kabul University, teaching computer science classes in his spare time, Hadayati said. John Gabel’s parents were visiting from Chicago, and Hadayati had lunch with the whole family the day before the attack. (AP photo/Rahmat Gul)

Father, son from Illinois killed in Kabul attack

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by his family shows Dr. Jerry Umanos in Afghanistan. Umanos was one of three physicians killed Thursday, April 24, 2014, when an Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of foreign doctors at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Family Photo)

Slain US doctor’s colleague recalls Kabul attack

By KAY JOHNSON - Associated Press

Jan Schuitema, wife of Dr. Jerry Umanos, discusses her husband's work in Afghanistan on Thursday in Chicago. Dr. Umanos, a pediatrician, was killed when an Afghan security guard opened fire Thursday at a Kabul hospital. (associated press)

Doctor’s killing in latest Afghanistan attack puts NGOs in crosshairs

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

The entrance to the headquarters for Cure International is seen on Thursday, April 24, 2014 in Lemoyne, Pa. An Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of foreign doctors at a Cure International Hospital in western Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday morning, killing three American physicians and wounding a U.S. nurse, officials said. (AP Photo/Peter Jackson)

Chicago doctor among those killed in Afghanistan

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

"The new Afghan government will have to make difficult political decisions both to increase revenue and to reduce expenditures," said Jarrett Blanc, deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)

U.S. fears Afghan services may be cut as corruption sharply reduces customs taxes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, April 5, 2014 file photo, roses lay in front of a picture of the Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, who was killed April 4, 2014 in Afghanistan, in Paris. Fellow officers say the Afghan police commander who killed Niedringhaus and wounded reporter Kathy Gannon seemed a calm, pious man who may have come under the influence of Islamic fundamentalists calling for vengeance against foreigners over drone strikes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Afghan probe begins in attack on AP journalists

By KIM GAMEL and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT

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Afghan candidates promise to respect results

By Kim Gamel and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press