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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 Americas longest war, and the Taliban warning voters to say away from the polls. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban threatens Afghanistan elections after U.S. peace talks collapse

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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

Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election speaks during an interview at his home, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Abdullah Abdullah, a leading contender in this weekend's presidential election, is alleging widespread abuses of power by his rival, incumbent President Ashraf Ghani. The painting behind Abdullah shows him with Ahmad Shah Masood, a hero to some in Afghanistan, who was killed in an al Qaida suicide bombing on Sept. 9, 2001, just two days before Al Qaida terrorists attacked the United States killing nearly 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AP Interview: Key Afghan presidential candidate claims fraud

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

China says Taliban envoys discussed Afghanistan peace effort

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The Latest: Anti-Taliban raid kills at least 40 civilians

Associated Press

Afghans transport the body of a woman who was killed during a raid conducted by Afghan special forces, in the southern Helmand province, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. An Afghan official said Monday that at least 40 civilians have been killed during an Afghan special forces raid and airstrikes conducted against of Taliban in southern Helmand province. (AP Photo/Abdul Hadi)

Afghan officials: 40 civilians killed in anti-Taliban raid

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Separate blasts kill 2 kids, pregnant woman in Afghanistan

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. Trump, the self-styled deal-maker president, is struggling to close big deals. He heads to the United Nations this coming week saddled with a heavy load of unresolved foreign policy challenges involving Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the Mideast and more. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump heads to UN with long list of deals he’s yet to close

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Illustration on the future of U. S. involvement in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The Vietnamization of Afghanistan

By Jed Babbin

Afghan security members and people work at the site of a suicide attack in Zabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. A powerful early morning suicide truck bomb devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahmad Wali Sarhadi)

Suicide bomb in southern Afghanistan, kills at least 20

By Tameen Akhgar and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad smiles at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. Amid talk of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Khalilzad, the U.S. envoy talking to the Taliban said Thursday, July 11, that America is not “cutting and running” from its longest war and that women will continue to have seats in peace talks to end nearly 18 years of fighting. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. must mistrust but verify to nail down Afghan deal

By Daniel N. Hoffman

In this Feb. 8, 2019, photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad speaks on the prospects for peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders agreed they wanted a deal with the United States, but some among them were in more of a hurry than others. Even before U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a mysterious Camp David summit on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, the Taliban negotiators were at odds with the council of leaders, or shura, that rules the Islamic movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Zalmay Khalilzad, Trump envoy, keeps door open to new Afghanistan peace talks

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

ICC judges authorize appeal against Afghanistan rejection

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Election commission workers prepare ballot boxes and election materials for the presidential election scheduled for Sept 28, at the Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Afghan officials say around 100,000 members of the country's security forces are ready for polling day. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: Official says at least 22 killed in Kabul attack

Associated Press

In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony to introduce the new chief of the intelligence service, in Kabul, Afghanistan. President Donald Trump's halt to U.S.-Taliban talks looks like a gift to the beleaguered Afghan president, who has insisted on holding a key election in less than three weeks’ time despite widespread expectations that a peace deal would push it aside. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban kill 24 at Afghan president’s rally; Ashraf Ghani unhurt

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

FILE - This file image broadcast April 17, 2002, by the London based Middle East Broacasting Corp, shows Osama bin Laden, right, and top deputy Ayman Al-Zawahri in an unknown location. Although the Taliban had promised Washington during months of negotiations that the U.S. will never again be attacked from Afghan soil, there's no evidence of a break in relations between long-time allies the Taliban and al-Qaida. After the collapse of the Taliban deal in September 2019, it's not clear if the Taliban gave Washington any information on where al-Qaida leaders, including Osama bin Laden’s successor, al-Zawahri, are hiding. (MBC via AP, File)

Jihad, history link Taliban to al-Qaida in Afghanistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan Presidential Spokesman Sediq Seddqi gives a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Seddqi said that the priority for his government is to hold national elections later this month - rather than reach a peace deal with insurgents. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan government says elections first, peace deal after

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2018, file photo, Kremlin guards perform in Red Square with the with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background, in Moscow, Russia. A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday, Setp. 13, 2019, in Russia, a representative said, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared dead a deal with the insurgent group in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Taliban visits Moscow days after Trump says talks ‘dead’

By KATHY GANNON and JIM HEINTZ - 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. Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders agreed they wanted a deal with the United States, but some among them were in more of a hurry than others. Even before U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled a mysterious Camp David summit on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, the Taliban negotiators were at odds with the council of leaders, or shura, that rules the Islamic movement. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Taliban want US deal, but some in bigger hurry than others

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press