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Afghan police officers search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Ghazni highway, in Maidan Shar, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Tareq Shah Bahrami said Monday that about 100 policemen and soldiers as well as 20 civilians have been killed in past four days of battle in the eastern capital of Ghazni. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: Afghan aid group offers to help Ghazni’s wounded

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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)

Assaults by Taliban raise questions about US plan for peace

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Afghan security personnel patrol in the city of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban assault on Ghazni, a key city linking areas of Taliban influence barely 75 miles from Kabul, has killed about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers since Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That’s raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in diapers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

Taliban surprise offensive in Afghanistan catches U.S. military off guard

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)

Taliban offensive exposes fragile US hopes for Afghan peace

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, a wounded woman is brought into a hospital in Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States has sent military advisers to aid Afghan forces in Ghazni, where they were struggling on Sunday to regain full control three days after the Taliban launched a massive assault on the eastern city. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

The Latest: Scores killed in battle for key Afghan city

Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, a wounded woman is brought into a hospital in Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States has sent military advisers to aid Afghan forces in Ghazni, where they were struggling on Sunday to regain full control three days after the Taliban launched a massive assault on the eastern city. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

120 Afghan forces, civilians killed in battle with Taliban

By Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2018 file photo, Taliban fighters ride their motorbikes inside Ghazni city, capital of Ghazni province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official said Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, that security forces are battling the Taliban for the third straight day following a massive insurgent attack into the key city of Ghazni. The Taliban pushed into Ghazni from different directions on Friday and destroyed a telecommunication tower, cutting off landline and cell phone communications. (AP Photo, File)

US advising Afghan forces in battle for eastern city

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2016 file photo, Uzbekistan's Minister for Foreign Affairs Abdulaziz Kamilov addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. Taliban and Uzbek officials say the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar led a delegation to Uzbekistan to meet senior Foreign Ministry officials in a rare diplomatic foray, and the strongest sign yet of the insurgency's increasing political presence in the region. Taliban political chief Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai represented the insurgents in the four-day talks that ended Friday, Aug. 10, 2018.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Taliban’s political stature rises with talks in Uzbekistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Taliban cling to pockets of Afghan city after assault

Associated Press

Doctors assist a wounded young man in a hospital after a deadly attack on a Shiite mosque in Gardez, the capital of Paktia, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. Two suicide bombers attacked the Shiite mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing several people and wounding anothers, officials said. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Taliban try to take Afghan city, kill at least 14, officials say

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Taliban attacks kill 12 in Afghanistan

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Suicide bomber kills 3 NATO forces in Afghanistan

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IS fighters surrender to Afghan forces after Taliban assault

Associated Press

A foreign Islamic State group fighter, second right, speaks to a journalist after he surrendered to government security forces in the Darzab district of Jawzjan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Afghan officials said more than 150 Islamic State fighters have surrendered to government forces on Wednesday in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender to Afghan, Taliban forces

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Medical personnel transport the body of a bombing victim by ambulance, at a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. The roadside bombing hit a passenger bus in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Toll from attack in Afghan city rises to 15 dead

Associated Press

FILE - This April 6, 2016, file photo shows Alice Wells, the U.S.'s top diplomat for South Asia, during her meeting with Syrian refugees at the International Airport of Amman, Jordan. The senior Taliban official says the insurgent group has held the first direct talks with the U.S. official in a preliminary discussion about future plans for peace negotiations. This week's meeting with Wells, was an attempt to jump-start talks on ending Washington's longest military engagement, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press early Saturday, July 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Taliban official says group spoke with US official

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Families leaves their homes after a rocket strike in the western part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. In the capital Kabul, three people including a man and two children were wounded by a rocket that hit a home in the western part of the city, said Ghafor Azizi, 5th district city police chief. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan official: Attack on security convoy in Kabul kills 3

By AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Army commandos kill senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

Associated Press

Afghan security personnel arrive to the site of an attack near the Kabul Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 22, 2018. An Afghan spokesman says there has been a large explosion near the Kabul airport shortly after the country's controversial first vice president landed on his return from abroad. Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and members of his entourage were unharmed in the explosion on Sunday, which took place as his convoy had already left the airport (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Official: Gunmen kill 4 civilians in mosque in Afghanistan

Associated Press

Taliban launches 2 days of attacks in Afghanistan, 14 killed

By AMIR SHAH and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press