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Taliban attacked a military base in Afghanistan, killing 3

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Afghan Security personnel work at the site of a suicide truck bombing in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Afghan officials said the latest attacks across the country have left at least 12 people dead and scores wounded, including the Taliban truck bombing in the country’s north that targeted a commando base. The violence comes as expectations had been rising that negotiations could soon get underway between the Afghan government and the insurgents. (AP Photo)

Afghan president names council for peace deal with Taliban

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Afghans walk on a road partially blocked by debris following a mudslide, in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The death toll from heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 150 on Thursday, with scores more injured as rescue crews searched for survivors beneath the mud and rubble of collapsed houses, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

‘Big progress’ expected in intra-Afghan negotiations, Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister says

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, right, greets members of a Taliban political team on their arrival at the Foreign Ministry for talks, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. The team arrived in Pakistan on Monday as efforts appear to be ramping up to get negotiations underway between the Afghan government and the insurgents. The start of the talks, envisaged under a U.S.-Taliban peace agreement signed in February, was hampered by a series of delays that have frustrated Washington. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP) **FILE**

Afghan officials hopeful Taliban peace talks begin next week

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Afghan Security personnel work at the site of a suicide truck bombing in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Afghan officials said the latest attacks across the country have left at least 12 people dead and scores wounded, including the Taliban truck bombing in the country’s north that targeted a commando base. The violence comes as expectations had been rising that negotiations could soon get underway between the Afghan government and the insurgents. (AP Photo)

Afghan officials: Taliban truck bomb, other attacks kill 17

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The top Taliban negotiator says the group's chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations. The Taliban official spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban negotiators visit Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan security personnel inspect site of a roadside bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Afghan official: Bomb kills 7 civilians in eastern province

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The top Taliban negotiator says the group's chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations. The Taliban official spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban set powerful negotiating team for intra-Afghan talks

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Feb. 29, 2020, file, photo, Afghanistan's Taliban delegation arrives for the agreement signing between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar. Taliban officials said Friday, July 17, 2020, that the son of the movement’s feared founder has been put in charge of its military wing and added powerful figures to its negotiating team ahead of expected talks aimed at ending Afghanistan’s decades of war, The moves mark one of the most significant shake-ups in years. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

Pakistan issues orders enforcing UN sanctions on Taliban

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani sings the national anthem after laying flowers on the Independence Minaret monument during the Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Mortar shells strike Kabul as Afghans mark Independence Day

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

Afghan Presidential spokesman Sediq Seddiqi gives an interview to The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. The Afghan government says it will not release the last Taliban prisoners it is holding until the insurgents free more captured soldiers, defying a traditional council held last week and further delaying intra-Afghan talks sought by the United States. The talks, which were laid out in a peace deal signed between the United States and the Taliban in February, were expected to begin on Thursday but are now postponed indefinitely. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans halt prisoner release, delaying talks with Taliban

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Splintered militants rejoin Pakistani Taliban, vow holy war

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi speaks to media before the &quot;intra-Afghan&quot; talks in Moscow, Russia. Koofi survived an assassination attempt, Afghan officials said Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said that Koofi was attacked late Friday afternoon near the capital of Kabul returning from a visit to the northern province of Parwan. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Female member of Afghan peace team survives attack by gunmen

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 26, 2020, file photo, prisoners are released from Bagram Prison in Parwan province, Afghanistan. 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. Afghanistan has released the first 86 of a final 400 Taliban prisoners, paving the way for negotiations between the warring sides in Afghanistan’s protracted conflict, the government said Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul, File)

Kabul begins release of final 400 Taliban, talks to follow

By KATHY GANNON and TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, left, walks to a House Armed Services hearing, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

U.S. general warns of long-term ISIS resurgence

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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 are warning the Afghan government against any attacks on Taliban members who are to be freed from prison in the final prisoner release under a U.S.-Taliban deal. Shaheen said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, that such attacks would jeopardize peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul political leadership. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban warn against attacks on freed prisoners going home

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Taliban bomber hits Pakistani army vehicle in NW, wounding 3

Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Mark Esper: U.S. to reduce troops in Afghanistan to ‘less than 5,000’ by end of November

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Delegate poses for photograph on the second day of the Afghan Loya Jirga meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. The traditional council opened Friday in the Afghan capital to decide the release of a final 400 Taliban - the final hurdle to the start of negotiations between Kabul's leadership and the Taliban in keeping with a peace deal the United States signed with the insurgent movement in February. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan council frees Taliban prisoners to set up peace talks

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Delegates wait for transportation on the first day of the Afghan Loya Jirga meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. The traditional council opened Friday in the Afghan capital to decide the release of a final 400 Taliban - the final hurdle to the start of negotiations between Kabul’s leadership and the Taliban in keeping with a peace deal the United States signed with the insurgent movement in February. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Traditional Afghan council meets on release of 400 Taliban

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press