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Afghan security personnel inspect at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Three bombings struck the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least eight people, including five women and one child, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan official: Taliban suicide blast hits police, kills 3

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Afghan official: Taliban kill 4 police in gunbattle

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US man accused of seeking to join Taliban to fight Americans

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Afghan activist: Any peace deal must ensure women’s rights

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Afghan police arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, July 25, 2019. Police say the target of the attack Thursday morning was a passenger bus belonging to the Ministry of Mines. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Correction: Afghanistan story

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Afghans seek clarity on Trump’s talk of wiping country out

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Ahmad Khalid Fahim, program director for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan shows the group's website during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The Swedish non-governmental organization in Afghanistan said the Taliban have forced the closure of 42 health facilities run by the non-profit group in eastern Maidan Wardan province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban to talk to Swedish NGO after Afghan clinic closures

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Ahmad Khalid Fahim, program director for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The Swedish non-governmental organization in Afghanistan said the Taliban have forced the closure of 42 health facilities run by the non-profit group in eastern Maidan Wardan province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban close Afghan health facilities run by Swedish group

By RAHIM FAIEZ and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Afghan radio station closes down following Taliban threats

By RAHIM FAIEZ - 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)

Envoy to Afghanistan says US not ‘cutting and running’

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, left, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, second left, and other members of the Taliban delegation speak to reporters prior to their talks in Moscow, Russia. The seventh and latest round of peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban is &quot;critical,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Sunday June 30, 2019, the second day of talks with Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where the militant group maintains a political office. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

All-Afghan conference brings country closer to peace

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Injured boys receive treatment in a hospital after a car bomb attack in Ghazni province, central Afghanistan, Sunday, July 7, 2019. Afghan officials say a car bomb in central Afghanistan has killed a few people and wounded dozens of people, many of them students attending a nearby school. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Afghan officials say car bomb kills 12, wounds scores

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, second from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. The seventh and latest round of peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban is &quot;critical,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on Sunday, June 30, 2019, the second day of talks with Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where the militant group maintains a political office. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US envoy hails latest talks with Taliban as the best ever

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan official: Taliban mortars hit busy market, kill 14

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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2001 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, then Deputy ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, gives an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Taliban spokesman says the seventh and latest round of peace talks with the U.S. is &quot;critical,&quot; as the militant group meets with Washington's envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Mideastern state of Qatar, where it maintains a political office. (AP Photo/Tariq Aziz, File)

US, Taliban scramble to finalize draft on troop withdrawal

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan soldiers stand amid the aftermath of Monday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. The Taliban set off a powerful bomb in downtown Kabul on Monday, killing a several people and wounding more than a hundred, and sending a cloud of smoke billowing over the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Trump Afghanistan message sparks violence, threatens peace talks, experts say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban attack kills 8 election officials in Afghanistan

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Afghan officials say Taliban attack kills 25 in north

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

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. Shaheen told The Associated Press that the Taliban's negotiating team was set to open talks with U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. He has been in the region for several weeks meeting a legion of regional and Afghan officials, including Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

U.S., Taliban open Doha talks in fresh bid to end war

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Press Information Department, visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, reviews guard of honor with Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Ghani has arrived on his first visit to Pakistan, in an attempt to forge a fresh relationship with Prime Minister Imran Khan's government and reach out to Islamabad for help in getting the Taliban to talk peace with Kabul.(Press Information Department,via AP)

Afghan president visits Pakistan, talks peace, renews ties

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press