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US drone strikes kill 11militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal talks to media outside the accountability court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A Pakistani court has postponed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a week after his children, who are co-defendants in the case, did not appear in court. The court on Monday set Oct. 9 for the indictments against Sharif, his two sons, daughter and son in-law. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Donald Trump will have line item restoring Pakistan aid in 2019 budget: Source

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Official: US drone kills 26 Taliban in eastern Afghanistan

Associated Press

U.S. Marines watch during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Marines see Afghan forces improve in Helmand battles

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. An Afghan official and an eyewitness say blasts have been heard and a gunbattle is occurring near the military academy in the capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

11 Afghan troops die in ISIS attack on Kabul military academy

By Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah - Associated Press

An injured man is moved to a stretcher outside a hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Jan. 27, 2018. The Public Health Ministry says over a dozen were killed, and over 100 wounded in a suicide car bombing in downtown Kabul. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)

The Latest: Trump condemns car bomb attack in Afghanistan

Associated Press

People help carry an injured man to the hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Jan. 27, 2018. The Public Health Ministry says over a dozen were killed, and over 100 wounded in a suicide car bombing in downtown Kabul. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)

Donald Trump condemns massive suicide bombing in Afghanistan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Soldiers recount true story behind ‘12 Strong’

By DREW BROOKS - Associated Press

Taliban with Pakistan links put on US terror blacklist

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Pakistan’s ace in poker match with US: Afghan air routes

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Screenwriters of "12 Strong" took pains to show the Horse Soldiers working together as a unit with a single goal, said former Green Beret Mark Nutsch. (Associated Press/File)

‘12 Strong’ filmmakers learn from Horse Soldiers in Afghanistan

By Christian Toto - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. troops gather into Wardak province, eastern Afghanistan, in this Dec. 25, 2013, photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. forces to go on the offensive in Afghanistan, says top commander

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Afghan people bury victims of Thursday's suicide attack on a Shiite cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. An Islamic State suicide bomber has struck a Shiite cultural center in Kabul, killing dozens of people and underscoring the extremist group's growing reach in Afghanistan even as its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been dismantled. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Top US commander wants more aggressive Afghan push this year

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Justice Department shows Irek Hamidullin, a Russian captured by U.S. Army on Nov. 29, 2009, in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. The former Russian military officer who received a life sentence for leading a 2009 Taliban attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan was a soldier, not a criminal, and should have been treated as a lawful combatant, the man’s lawyer argued to a federal appeals court Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. But a Justice Department lawyer argued that Hamidullin, who led the attack on behalf of the Taliban and its terrorist organization ally, the Haqqani Network, was not entitled the protections given to prisoners of war. (U.S. Justice Department via AP)

Appeals court hears case of Russian Taliban fighter

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

The Latest: Appeals court hears Russian Taliban fighter case

Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2017 photo, Mike Duncan, poses in his Corvallis, Ore., home. Duncan, was injured in 2009 in Afghanistan while searching for Bowe Bergdahl, who had deserted his post. Duncan is now a physician assistant with Samaritan Health Services in Corvallis. (Andy Cripe /The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP)

Corvallis man injured in search says he’s forgiven solider

By LILLIAN SCHROCK - Associated Press

US hits Taliban drug labs in Afghanistan under new strategy

Associated Press

The combat situation in Afghanistan remains a stalemate, with the central government in Kabul not ceding any territory to the Taliban while not making any significant gains against the terrorist group over the past year. (Associated Press)

U.S. goal: Drive Taliban from 80% of Afghanistan in 2 years

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

"Is it not better to have these [political] debates with these groups than to have those groups planning attacks?" asks Abdullah Abdullah, a top Afghan leader.
Afghanistan's Chief of Executive, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, talks during a press conference after he escaped from three suicide attacks during a funeral ceremony, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jun 3, 2017. Explosions in Kabul on Saturday killed at least six people attending a funeral attended by government officials, including members of parliament, a day after hundreds of demonstrators turned out to demand more security in the capital. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini) (Associated Press)

Abdullah Abdullah: Taliban should have role in peace talks

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, arrives at the Fort Bragg courtroom facility for a sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Bowe Bergdahl avoids prison time, to be dishonorably discharged

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times