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FILE - In this March 2009, file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. selection of Khalilzad as special adviser on reconciliation in Afghanistan has raised some hackles in the region, with critics accusing him of marginalizing the country's smaller ethnic groups when he last served as a presidential envoy following the 2001 collapse of the Taliban and champions praising his tough stand on Pakistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

New US adviser to Afghanistan raises hackles in region

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 22, 1998, file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. Taliban say the Afghan Haqqani network founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, an ex- U.S. ally turned fierce enemy, has died. (AP Photo/Mohammed Riaz, File)

Taliban: Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of Haqqani network, dies in Afghanistan

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

U.S. Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller speaks during the change of command ceremony at Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Miller assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan following a handover ceremony. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

US general assumes NATO command in Afghanistan

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FILE - In this Sunday, July 15, 2018 file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Talks next month in Moscow to discuss a peaceful end to 17-years of war in Afghanistan that includes a place at the table for the Taliban has ruffled feathers in Washington and Kabul, who are refusing to attend, and resurrected Cold War memories. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**

Russia calls off planned Afghan peace conference

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, July 15, 2018 file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Talks next month in Moscow to discuss a peaceful end to 17-years of war in Afghanistan that includes a place at the table for the Taliban has ruffled feathers in Washington and Kabul, who are refusing to attend, and resurrected Cold War memories. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Russian peace talks raise specter of shifting influence

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a house where suspected attackers were hiding while policemen arrests two suspects, left, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. The Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani was giving his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, said police official Jan Agha. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US declines invitation to Russia-led talks on Afghanistan

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

An MD 530F military helicopter targets a house where suspected attackers were hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gen. John Nicholson said President Trump's reset of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is beginning to bear fruit. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Departing commander in Afghanistan sees fruits of U.S. strategy shift

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An Afghan security officer mans with gun near a house where attackers are hiding, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Afghan police say the Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul as President Ashraf Ghani was giving his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban cannot ‘wait us out’ under new Afghan war plan, says top U.S. commander

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An Afghan security officer mans with a gun near a house where attackers are hiding, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Afghan police say the Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul as President Ashraf Ghani was giving his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Russia says Taliban plan to attend Afghan talks in Moscow

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

An MD 530F military helicopter hovers to target a house where attackers are hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. The Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani was giving his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, said police official Jan Agha. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Rockets strike Afghan capital in latest spike of violence

By AMIR SHAH and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

The Latest: Afghan forces free 149 people taken by Taliban

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In this June 16, 2018, file photo, Taliban fighters gather with residents to celebrate a three-day cease fire marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. On Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Ghani made the announcement Sunday during celebrations of the 99th anniversary of Afghanistan's independence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan forces free 149 hostages taken by Taliban in ambush

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

In this June 16, 2018, file photo, Taliban fighters gather with residents to celebrate a three-day cease fire marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. On Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Ghani made the announcement Sunday during celebrations of the 99th anniversary of Afghanistan's independence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan president calls for Eid cease-fire, Taliban to reply

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Families leave their houses during a nearby clash between insurgents and security forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Gunmen besieged a compound belonging to the Afghan intelligence service in Kabul on Thursday, police said, as the city's Shiite residents held funeral services for the victims of a horrific suicide bombing the previous day that left over 30 dead. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Taliban say no peace with ‘occupation,’ want US talks

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Afghan men stand near a damaged house following a Taliban attack in Ghazni, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said Wednesday. Life gradually returned to normal in parts of the eastern city of Ghazni after a massive insurgent attack last week, with sporadic gunbattles still underway in some neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Afghan president visits key city, week after Taliban raid

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

In this July 20, 2018 photo, members of the rock band Arikayn, Afghan musicians Hakim Ebrahimi, center, and Soraya Hosseini, right, play with Kourosh Ghasemi, an Iranian drummer, at a furniture workshop in Eslamshahr, on the outskirts of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The band, made up of Afghan migrants, plays Metallica-inspired ballads about the struggles of millions of Afghans who have fled to Iran to escape decades of war and unrest. In Iran they face discrimination, and have had to contend with hard-liners opposed to Western culture. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan rock band struggles to hit right note in Iran

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack by gunmen, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Gunmen besieged a compound belonging to the Afghan intelligence service in Kabul on Thursday, police said, as the city's Shiite residents held funeral services for the victims of a horrific suicide bombing the previous day that left over 30 dead. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Mattis says further Taliban assaults likely in weeks ahead

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

An injured man is put into an ambulance following a suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The public Health Ministry said there were at least 48 dead and dozens wounded. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Afghan capital rocked by suicide bombing

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Afghan security personnel patrol in the city of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

Suicide bomber targets Shiite students in Kabul, killing 48

By Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah - Associated Press

An injured boy rides in an ambulance on the Ghazni highway, in Maidan Shar, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Afghan forces battled the Taliban in the eastern city of Ghazni a key provincial capital, for the fourth straight day on Monday, following a massive assault on the eastern city last week that overwhelmed its defenses and allowed insurgents to capture several parts of it, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban overrun Afghan army base, kill 17 troops

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press