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NATO behind Turkey to hit back at Syria

By Barbara Surk And Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

World Briefs: Panetta, Allen to reassure NATO on insider attacks

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NATO backs Turkey in standoff with Syria

By Frank Jordans and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

World Briefs: First Gulf state opens office in Gaza

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

World Briefs: Taliban mocks U.S. as war enters 12th year

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** A U.S. Marine squad leader patrols alongside an Afghan National Army lieutenant in Helmand province in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Deadly sleeper cells of Taliban are difficult to detect, thwart

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

“We want peace,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says after a Syrian mortar attack kills five. (Associated Press)

Turkey vows to protect its people after Syrian shelling

By Louise Osborne and Jacob Resneck - Special to The Washington Times

An Afghan soldier adjusts bullets in his gun Sept. 10, 2012, on a military helicopter during a flight transporting journalists from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Bagram. The journalists were to attend a ceremony where U.S. officials handed over formal control of the country's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Afghan official blames Taliban for insider attacks

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks July 17, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

British general warns against hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Pentagon voices support for Turkey in skirmish with Syria

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, after a bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into a patrol of Afghan and international forces, killing more than a dozen people, including three NATO service members and their translator, officials said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

Afghan bomber kills 14, including 3 NATO troops

By Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

** FILE ** An Afghan National Army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, in the volatile Arghandab Valley outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, in July 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

U.S. and Afghan forces clash; 2 Americans, 3 Afghans dead

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. military personnel pray during a memorial service for their fallen comrades in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in March 2003. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks to reporters in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 10, 2012, after visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial ahead of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Associated Press)

Panetta: Afghan-NATO operations to resume

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** An armored vehicle patrols the periphery of Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in January 2007. (Associated Press)

Taliban release video on Afghan base attackers

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

**FILE** Afghan security forces raise Afghanistan's flag in place of NATO's flag on July 18, 2012, during the third phase of transfer of authority from NATO troops to Afghan security forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Afghan-NATO forces foil insider attack

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

An Afghan policeman checks a man entering a provincial police station near the main gate of a joint civilian-military base where two British soldiers were killed in Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday, March 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

U.K. opposition: Afghanistan exit strategy in doubt

By David Stringer - Associated Press

Afghan security guards stand by the remnants of a tire burned during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, in February. In recent years, allied troops lived and trained with their Afghan counterparts. But killings of allied troops took a toll in trust. The Pentagon said Tuesday that it has stopped training Afghan troops and working with them below battalion level. (Associated Press)

Pentagon ends more mingling of U.S., Afghan troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Army SFC David Schopp, of Plymouth, Mich. returns Sept. 16, 2012, from a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan in Lansing, Mich. About 80 troops arrived at Capital City Air International Airport. (Associated Press/The State Journal)

White House: Obama sticking to Afghan pullout plan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Herat, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, during a protest against an Internet video mocking the Prophet Muhammad that many fear could further aggravate Afghan-U.S. relations. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

Blast kills 8 South Africans, 4 Afghans in Kabul

By Amir Shah and Patrick Quinn - Associated Press