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Taliban’s new leader Akhundzada leaves U.S. pessimistic for peace

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the Shima Kanko Hotel in Shima, Japan, Thursday, May 26, 2016, after completion the third working session of the G-7 Summit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Taliban violence will continue under new leader

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

People stand near a coffin carrying a body one of the victims of a U.S. drone strike on May 22 in Quetta, Pakistan. A senior commander of the Afghan Taliban confirmed that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, was killed in the strike. (Associated Press)

Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour death creates opening for Haqqani network

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This photo taken by a freelance photographer Abdul Salam Khan using his smart phone on Sunday, May 22, 2016, purports to show the destroyed vehicle in which Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour was traveling in the Ahmad Wal area in Baluchistan province of Pakistan, near Afghanistan's border. A senior commander of the Afghan Taliban confirmed on Sunday that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Abdul Salam Khan)

Obama declared death of Mullah Mohammed Mansour, Taliban leader, an ‘important milestone’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

People stand near a coffin carrying a body one of the victims in a reportedly U.S. drone strike in the Ahmad Wal area in Baluchistan province of Pakistan, at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, May 22, 2016. A senior commander of the Afghan Taliban confirmed on Sunday that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, has been killed in the strike. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Drone strike on Taliban’s Mohammed Akhtar Mansour was self-defense, Pentagon claims

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 file photo, shows Taliban leader Mullah Mansour. The U.S. conducted an airstrike Saturday, May 21, 2016, against the Taliban leader the Pentagon said, and a U.S. official said Mansour was believed to have been killed. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the attack occurred in a remote region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He said the U.S. was studying the results of the attack. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan leaders see Taliban leader’s death as hopeful sign

By LYNNE O'DONNELL and MIRWAIS KHAN - Associated Press

A U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was the final straw that prompted one combat-hardened Green Beret to unleash a barrage of indictments against the command in Afghanistan and policymakers in Washington. (Associated Press)

Green Beret blasts Afghanistan command over ‘moral cowardice,’ ‘profound lack of strategy’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, center, being greeted by supporters at outside his residence in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2016. A joint raid by U.S. and Afghan forces on Tuesday rescued his son who was held captive for three years by Islamic militants, officials said. Ali Haider Gilani was found during the raid near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, according to a spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

U.S., Afghan special forces free son of former Pakistani prime minister

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kundiz, Afghanistan, was charred by a U.S. airstrike intended for a Taliban-infested building 480 yards away. A review of U.S. Central Command's hundreds of pages of investigative files shows a series of botched decisions resulted in the deaths of 42 patients and staff. (Associated Press)

U.S. airstrike on Afghan hospital the culmination of a tragedy of errors

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

"The Taliban came at the Afghan Security Forces more intensely than perhaps we anticipated," Army Lt. Gen. John Nicholson, President Obama's nominee to become the next top American commander in Afghanistan, testified last week to Congress. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda seeks partnership with Taliban for comeback

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Afghan security forces carry a body at the site of a deadly Taliban-claimed suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Armed militants in Afghanistan have staged a coordinated assault on a key government security agency in the capital Tuesday morning, killing dozens and wounding more than 320 people. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Taliban launches attack on Afghan government security agency, kills at least 28

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan security forces inspect the site of a Taliban-claimed deadly suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday that killed 28 people. (Associated Press)

Taliban suicide attack in Kabul renews debate on Afghanistan troop cuts

By Carlo Muñoz, Carlo Munoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, April 11, 2016, file, photo, Afghan women walk past a damaged bus after a roadside bomb explosion on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, The Afghan Taliban have announced the start of their warm-weather fighting season, an annual declaration that marks the launch of a summer of violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban militants announce start of ‘spring offensive’ in Afghanistan

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani talk at the start of their bilateral commission talks at Char Chinar Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 9, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

John Kerry presses Afghan leaders on unity; no U.S. troop changes

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, file photo, the Motorola Moto X smartphone, using Google's Android software, is shown at a media preview in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Taliban propaganda app pulled from Google Play

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif talks to an injured victim of Sunday's suicide bombing during his visit to a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 28, 2016. Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister on Monday vowed to eliminate perpetrators of terror attacks such as the massive suicide bombing that targeted Christians gathered for Easter the previous day in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 70 people. (AP Photo/Press Information Department via AP)

EDITORIAL: Growing terrorism in Pakistan

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the site of a bomb blast in a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March, 27, 2016. A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has killed tens of people and wounded scores, a health official said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chuadary)

Pakistan PM vows to fight terror after 70 died in Lahore

By Zarar Khan and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

An Afghan female witness talks to the media at the site of a suicide attack near the Defense Ministry compound in Kabul on Feb. 27. The Afghan Taliban say they will not participate in a peace process with Kabul's government until foreign forces in Afghanistan stop attacking their positions and leave the country. (Associated Press)

Afghanistan braces for bloody summer as Taliban reject peace talks with government

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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

Violence in Afghanistan forces Obama to rethink troop levels

By DEB RIECHMANN and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

"The Taliban came at the Afghan Security Forces more intensely than perhaps we anticipated," Army Lt. Gen. John Nicholson, President Obama's nominee to become the next top American commander in Afghanistan, testified last week to Congress. (Associated Press)

Obama’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal unlikely with rising Taliban, Islamic State violence

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times